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1	"Do for Do Ain't No Obeah:" Backtime Religion in the Danish West Indies, 1700-1880 Carter, Gregory Matthew 01 May 2022 (has links) (PDF) The dissertation examines the significant yet historically marginalized Backtime Religion of the Danish West Indies (present-day United States Virgin Islands), an African Heritage religion that established spiritual connections between regions and peoples of Sub-Saharan West Africa and the enslaved people of the Caribbean. The timeline encompassed in the dissertation is 1700-1880, a period which includes the era of slavery and the post-slavery or estate serfdom era, which ended following the Fireburn labor revolt. During that time, most African-descended people in the Danish West Indies lived in slave villages on the sugar estates. Using musical improvisation as an investigative methodology, this dissertation argues the Backtime Religion was a distinct African heritage religion and included a musical/performance repertoire drawn from numerous West African traditions, a communopathic and spirit-centered pharmocosm or folk medical complex administered by Weed Women, Moravian and other Christianities adopted by enslaved people for their own spiritual benefit, and divination and related material cultures from the African Caribbean discourse called Obeah. This religion was centered within the slave villages established on each sugar estate, and grew to include churches, weekend markets, and other spaces that were useful to the enslaved population of the Danish West Indies. African Atlantic Caribbean Obeah Performance Religion
2	Lost in the fire, gained in the ash : moral economies of exhange in Dominica / Mantz, Jeffrey W. January 2003 (has links) Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology, June 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.
3	Bush Medicine in the Family Islands: The Medical Ethnobotany of Cat Island and Long Island, Bahamas Richey-Abbey, Laurel Rhea 01 May 2012 (has links) No description available. African American Studies African History African Studies Alternative Medicine American History Biology Black History Black Studies Botany Caribbean Studies Cultural Anthropology Ethnic Studies European History Folklore Health Health Care History Medicine Ethnobotany Bush Medicine Bahamas Long Island Cat Island West Indies Caribbean Origin of Bush Medicine Herbal Medicine Folk or Traditional Medicine Ethnomedicine Medicinal Plants Obeah Colonial and Slave Medicine Bush Tea Disease Etiology

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