Thesis (M.A.)--Villanova University, 2007. / Communication Dept. Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis is an ethnography of Rastafari childhood in the former Cape Province, South Africa, through the eyes of both parents and children. If children are a ‘muted group’, then what are the identity formation implications for “double-muted” groups, the children of ethnic minorities whose voices are not heard? Rasta parents’ experience of the struggle, ie. the opposition to apartheid, has shaped the Rastafari chant of ‘equal rights’ and ‘justice’ into a distinctly South African form of protest and resistance. Their childhood experiences have resulted in a desire to provide a better life for their children, using Rastafari as a vehicle. This is expressed in a continuation of the struggle that was started during apartheid, in the Rasta ideology children grow up learning. The Rasta child has become a contested body in this struggle. The South African Government, through policy, has a mandate to protect the child, and legislature exists to do so in accordance with international law. However, as child-raising differs phenomenally from culture to culture, these goals on the part of the State start infringing upon the rights and freedoms of minorities to raise their children according to their own cultural goals. This study examines the tension between Rastafari and government with regards to child raising, specifically looking at the following main points of contestation: public health, public schools and policy/legislation; in order to examine how Rasta children negotiate their identity in the face of these conflicting messages and struggles. Their identity can be influenced by three main groups, the Rasta family they grow up in; school; and multi-media. What these children choose to accept or reject in their worldview is moderated by their own agency. This study shows that this tension results in a new generation of Rastafari children, who are strongly grounded in an identity as Rastafari and take pride in this identity. It also illustrates how Rastafari are impacting on and changing government policy through resistance. Their successes in challenging the state on the grounds of multiculturalism and religious freedom, has helped in the attainment of a sense of dignity.

Submitted by Fabio Sobreira Campos da Costa (fabio.sobreira@ufpe.br) on 2017-07-10T14:51:52Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) GISELE W NASCIMENTO Dissertação. PPGE. UFPE.pdf: 3605760 bytes, checksum: 06b606448df7d468004ba4810a29bed6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T14:51:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) GISELE W NASCIMENTO Dissertação. PPGE. UFPE.pdf: 3605760 bytes, checksum: 06b606448df7d468004ba4810a29bed6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-06-20 / CAPES / A presente pesquisa teve o objetivo de identificar e analisar quais os princípios e estratégias que balizam o estar juntos de sujeitos rastafáris e como sua experiência pode contribuir para construir/reforçar valores contra-hegemônicos no campo da educação popular. Esta investigação de caráter etnográfico é composta de uma pesquisa de campo por meio de um estudo de caso através da narrativa de indivíduos da filosofia rastafári. A abordagem teórica se deu de uma articulação de proposições ligadas a teoria hermenêutica do filósofo Paul Ricoeur com a teoria do discurso do filósofo político Ernesto Laclau, de matriz pós-estruturalista. Para isto, criamos quatro categorias de análise, a saber: 1. Pontos de tensão entre Rastafári e a sociedade; 2. Disputas de sentido que estão sendo postas nesse campo; 3. Aproximações metafóricas e articulações metonímicas postas em ação; e 4. Disputas em termos espaciais que influenciam os esforços expressivos dos sujeitos rastafáris. Concluímos que os sujeitos rastafáris pesquisados mostraram ser um grupo singular que vive à margem da sociedade, buscando, com suas lutas diárias, não se deixar capturar pela lógica do capital. Sendo assim, acreditamos que sua experiência não pode ser aprisionada dentro dos ambientes metonímicos hegemônicos, ela passa e é atravessada por este ambiente, mas não se fixa ou se limita a ele, pois sempre existe e existirá práticas que escapam aos discursos (que são práticas) universalistas. Portanto, acreditamos que a experiência destes sujeitos pode contribuir com o campo da educação popular na medida que abre espaço para a "criatividade", podendo com isso, alcançar mais sujeitos de movimentos sociais. Sujeitos esses que podem incorporar em suas vidas um paradigma de educação que vai além da instrução, uma educação que tem como causa o indivíduo, seja na sua individualidade, seja na coletividade, ou seja, a Educação Popular. / The present research aimed to identify and analyze what the principles and strategies that guide the being together of Rastafarian subjects are and how their experience can help to build / reinforce counter-hegemonic values in the field of popular education. This ethnographic investigation consists of a field research through a case study and the narrative of individuals of the Rastafarian philosophy. The theoretical approach is the result of the articulation of propositions that are linked to the hermeneutic theory by the philosopher Paul Ricoeur with the discourse theory by the political philosopher Ernesto Laclau, from a post-structuralist matrix. For this reason, we created four categories of analysis, namely: 1. Tension points between Rastafari and society; 2. Sense dispute being put in this field; 3. Metaphoric approaches and metonymic articulation put into action; and 4. Disputes in spatial terms that influence the significant efforts of Rastafarian subjects. We conclude that the Rastafarian subjects surveyed proved to be a unique group that lives on the margins of society, seeking, through daily struggles, not being captured by the logic of capital. Thus, we believe that their experience cannot be trapped within the hegemonic metonymic environments, it passes and is crossed by this environment, but does not get fixed or limited to it, because there has always been and there will exist practices that escape speeches (which are practical) universalists. Therefore, we believe that the experience of these subjects may contribute to the field of popular education as it makes room for "creativity" and can, thereby, reach more subjects from social movements. Subjects, those, who can incorporate into their lives a paradigm of education that goes beyond instruction, an education that has the individual as its cause, whether in their own individuality, or in their community. That is, the Popular Education.

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À rebours des théories de la mondialisation comme dispositif déterritorialisé, la communauté rastafari de Ouagadougou revendique une identité afrocentrée qu’elle adapte à sa situation africaine. Réclamant haut et fort son identité burkinabè à travers notamment le rappel mémoriel d’une figure politique locale, littéralement iconique, celle de Thomas Sankara, en même temps que son identité africaine mythique construite à partir de la cosmologie rastafari, cette communauté incarne pourtant l’hybridité et la fluidité propres aux définitions de la mondialisation. Construite en opposition à Babylone, le monde des Blancs, l’identité rastafari, née en Jamaïque, émerge aujourd’hui en Afrique. Cette identité, à la fois afrocentrée et transnationale, instaure un rapport complexe aux Occidentaux, qui représentent la Babylone (les « Forces du Mal » dans la Bible) des rasta, étant donné l’importance que revêtent les rencontres avec ceux-ci dans le mode de vie des rasta à Ouagadougou, rencontres prises dans ce que les rasta appellent le « système nassara » (« système blanc »). C’est alors la notion d’ambivalence qui apparaît comme une ressource intéressante pour analyser les négociations entreprises par les rasta burkinabè dans la formation de leur identité, identité souvent accusée soit d’absolutisme racial, soit, au contraire, d’ « occidentalisation ». / Contrary to the conception of globalization as a non territorial based device, the rastafari community of Ouagadougou calls for an afrocentric identity adapted to its african situation.The community claims loud and clear its burkinabe identity, result of the combination of the memorial recall of a local political figure, the iconic Thomas Sankara, together with the mythical identity of the community born out of the rastafari cosmology. Yet, the community embodies the hybridity and fluidity peculiar to the definitions of globalization. Built in opposition to Babylon, the world of the Whites, the rastafari identity, born in Jamaica, emerges today in Africa.This identity, both afrocentric and transnational, creates a complex relationship with Westerners - who represents the rasta's Babylon (the “forces of evil” in the Bible) – particularly considering the importance that covers the encounters with Westerners in the way of life of the rasta in Ougadougou, encounters that belong to what the rasta call the “nassara system” (the “white system”).It's why the concept of ambivalence appears to be an interesting asset to analyze the negotiations undertaken by the burkinabe rasta in the forming of their identity, that same identity which is often accused either of racial absolutism, or by contrast, of “westernization”.

Anyone familiar with the Rastafari movement and its connection with the Bible is struck by the prevalence of I-locution found in them both. Because the phenomenon is important in the canonical Testaments, more so the New, this study seeks to investigate its significance in certain epistolary pieces (Romans 7 :14-25 ; 15 :14-33), the bio-Narratives and the Apocalypse, in their historical and cultural milieu. The next stage of the investigation then compares the findings of the aforementioned New Testament books with corresponding statements of the Rasta community to determine their relevance for the ongoing Anglophone theological discussion. In this connection, the following questions are addressed: (1) what are the inter-textual link(s) and function(s) of the `I' statements in Romans? (2) How do they relate to similar dominical sayings? And (3) can any parallel be established between the language of Rastafari and these? In sum, the study seeks to bring into critical dialogue the permutative `I' of the NT with the self-understanding of Rastafari. / NEW TESTAMENT / DTH (NEW TESTAMENT)

Anyone familiar with the Rastafari movement and its connection with the Bible is struck by the prevalence of I-locution found in them both. Because the phenomenon is important in the canonical Testaments, more so the New, this study seeks to investigate its significance in certain epistolary pieces (Romans 7 :14-25 ; 15 :14-33), the bio-Narratives and the Apocalypse, in their historical and cultural milieu. The next stage of the investigation then compares the findings of the aforementioned New Testament books with corresponding statements of the Rasta community to determine their relevance for the ongoing Anglophone theological discussion. In this connection, the following questions are addressed: (1) what are the inter-textual link(s) and function(s) of the `I' statements in Romans? (2) How do they relate to similar dominical sayings? And (3) can any parallel be established between the language of Rastafari and these? In sum, the study seeks to bring into critical dialogue the permutative `I' of the NT with the self-understanding of Rastafari. / NEW TESTAMENT / DTH (NEW TESTAMENT)

Literary scholars frequently analyze the allusions to Western Christianity apparent in Toni Morrison's novels, but these studies overlook the ways in which some of her novels are informed by a Caribbean presence. This study argues that Rastafari themes, symbols, and ideologies are recurrent in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby, Beloved, and Song of Solomon. Rastafari is a social movement primarily concerned with restoring the image of Africa to a holy place. A Rastafari analysis of these texts broadens the literary spectrum to suggest that these novels highlight Morrison's attempt to write about the multifaceted element of the black community, which remains deeply connected to its American, African, and Caribbean roots. / by Nicole Racquel Carr. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2010. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

The objective of this thesis is to examine the patterns of residence and inheritance of rural Rastafarians of Jamaica. A historical materialist perspective is used to investigate the development of the matrifocal rural peasantry and the Rastafari movement, focusing on major economic changes which laid the foundation for the present cultural patterns. Ethnographic fieldwork was carried out from January to June 1995, in which a participantobservation methodology was used to gather data concerning patterns of residence and inheritance of 22 Rastafarians. The findings demonstrated that rural Rastas have difficulty practicing their ideal patrilineal patterns due to economic and material conditions; poverty and limited access to land impose limitations on patterns of residence and inheritance. Following a period of isolation after converting to the movement, Rastas generally must return to their mother's family to gain access to land and gardens or continue to squat in the mountains on government or private land. / Department of Anthropology

Thesis (S.T.M.)--Yale University, 1985. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-86).