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 · Rastafari: Roots and Ideology. Rastafari.: Barry Chevannes. Syracuse University Press, Dec 1, - Religion - pages. 1 Review. The first comprehensive work on the origins of the Jamaica-based Rastafaris, including interviews with some of the earliest members of the movement. Rastafari is a valuable work with a rich historical and 5/5(1).  · Rastafari: Roots and Ideology. Rastafari.: Barry Chevannes. Syracuse University Press, Dec 1, - Religion - pages. 3 Reviews. The first comprehensive work on the origins of the Jamaica-based Rastafaris, including interviews with some of the earliest members of the movement. Rastafari is a valuable work with a rich historical and /5(3).  · Rastafari: Roots and Ideology (Utopianism and Communitarianism) by Chevannes, Barry. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, ,

Rastafari: roots and ideology by Chevannes, Barry. Publication date Topics Rastafari movement -- Jamaica -- Kingston Traces the cultural development of the Rastafari movement from the slave trade in the sixteenth century, when it developed as a resistance reaction. Rastafari: Roots and Ideology (Utopianism and Communitarianism) by Chevannes, Barry. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, , Barry Chevannes (right) with a copy of his book 'Rastafari: Roots and Ideology' with (from left) Bernard Jankee, director of the African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank; ACIJ/ JMB Librarian, Sharnette Fullerton; and acting director of the Institute of Jamaica, Dr Elaine Fisher.

I first got interested in Rastafarianism by way of William Gibson, who had several characters who were Dreadlocks. My ignorance of what that was all about was, well, somewhat shocking for me at the time. So, I started poking around. Quite a few years ago, I found Rastafari: Roots and Ideology by Barry Chevannes. Rastafari: Roots and Ideology. by. Barry Chevannes. · Rating details · ratings · 9 reviews. The first comprehensive work on the origins of the Jamaica-based Rastafaris, including interviews with some of the earliest members of the movement. Rastafari is a valuable work with a rich historical and ethnographic approach that seeks to. Professor Barry Chevannes, who passed on in November, , was the pre-eminent scholar about the Rastafari movement and an advocate for Rastafari rights in Jamaica. Other books have been written about Rastafari, but Barry's book contains transcriptions of interviews with Rastafari in the s, which cannot be found elsewhere.