This classic examination of the freedmen in the slave society of Barbados was first published in 1974 and has not been widely available for years. Reissued now with a new introduction by Melanie Newto
Two and a half centuries since Obeah was first criminalized in Jamaica, say Handler (emeritus, anthropology and black American studies, Southern Illinois U.-Carbondale) and Bilby (anthropology, Smiths
