| 书目名称 | Cosmopolitanism from the Global South |
| 副标题 | Caribbean Spiritual |
| 编辑 | Shelene Gomes |
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| 概述 | Traces the reproduction of a Rastafari community in the Jamaica neighbourhood of Shashamane.Highlights a Caribbean Rastafari diaspora as a case of cosmopolitan thought and action.Argues for a rooted c |
| 丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology |
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| 描述 | .This is a book about the power of the imagination to move persons from the Global South as they reinvent themselves. This ethnography focuses on Caribbean Rastafari who have undertaken a spiritual repatriation to Ethiopia over several decades particularly, though not exclusively, from Jamaica. Shelene Gomes traces the formation of a Rastafari community located in the multicultural .Jamaica Safar .or Jamaica neighbourhood in the Ethiopian city of Shashamane following a twentieth century grant of land from the former Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie I. In presenting narratives of spiritual repatriation, everyday behaviours and ritualised events, Gomes provides an ethnographic account of Caribbean cosmopolitan sensibilities. Situated in the historical conditions of colonial West Indian plantations and the asymmetries of freedom and bondage within modernity, a recognition of global positionalities and local situatedness characterises this case of cosmopolitanism from the Global South..Shifting the centre of worldviews from Europe to Africa, Rastafari both challenge global disparities as well as reproduce hierarchies in the local space of the Jamaica Safar. In positioning Ethiopia as |
| 出版日期 | Book 2021 |
| 关键词 | Diaspora; Jamaican Diaspora; Caribbean; Citizenship; Rastafari; Ethiopia; Ethnography |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82272-9 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-82274-3 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-82272-9Series ISSN 2946-4218 Series E-ISSN 2946-4226 |
| issn_series | 2946-4218 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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