Barry Chevannes

"Caribbean Healing Traditions: Implications for Health and Mental Health draws on the knowledge of prominent clinicians, scholars, and researchers of the Caribbean and the diaspora, exploring healing traditions in the context of health and mental health for the first time. Caribbean Healing Traditions is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, faculty and practitioners in the fields of nursing, counseling, psychotherapy, psychiatry, social work, youth and community development, and medicine"--

"Recommended collection includes selections by editor on native religions of Jamaica, a new approach to Rastafari, and the origin and symbolism of dreadlocks. Also includes articles by: Jean Besson on religion as resistance in Jamaica; by John Homiak on dub history (use of oral testimony by Rastafarians in their ritual discourse); Ellis Cashmore on the Rastafarian de-labeling process; H.U.E. Thoden van Velzen on African-American worldviews in the Caribbean; Wilhelmina van Wetering on Surinamese creole women's discourse on possession and therapy; and Roland Littlewood on problems in the analysis of origins"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.