10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MYAL»
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Afro-Caribbean Religions: An Introduction to Their ...
number of Akan-Ashanti descendants and their linguistic patterns that survived in
Jamaican parishes, Myal traits were thought to be of Akan origin.39 Myal was
prominent in the parish of Trelawney, and it was argued that the re- ligion ...
Nathaniel Samuel Murrell, 2010
2
Obeah, Christ, and Rastaman: Jamaica and Its Religion
It was the function of the myal-man to create a stronger magic than that of the
obeah-man. There was a specific myal dance by means of which negroes were
initiated into the myal society, through a death and resurrection ritual. There
seems ...
3
Three Eyes for the Journey : African Dimensions of the ...
In all five of these communities, the gumbay drum is intimately tied to local
ancestral religions in which spirit possession plays a central role, and in all five,
this form of spiritual possession is still known as myal. Indeed, these communities
...
Dianne M. Stewart Assistant Professor of Religion Emory University, 2005
4
Africa in America: Slave Acculturation and Resistance in the ...
The third phase, from the late 1 760s to the second quarter of the nineteenth
century, was led by assimilateds, who in the first instance generally ignored the
rural blacks' cultic experimentations with Myal, Convince, and their offshoots
while ...
5
Rastafari: Roots and Ideology
Myal was transfixed on the Spirit as possessor and sought him in dreams and
secluded retreat. Whereas Christianity placed its emphasis on transmitted
knowledge (doctrine, Bible, catechism) for conversion, Myal placed its emphasis
on the ...
6
Culture and Customs of Jamaica
But in the 1760s a pan-African 'society' called Myal appeared, "the first
documented Jamaican religion cast in the 'classical' African mold" (Schuler 1979:
66). Interestingly, Myal was not included in the pmsi riptivc laws of the late
eighteenth ...
Martin Mordecai, Pamela Mordecai, 2001
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Dancing Postcolonialism: The National Dance Theatre Company ...
Ryman suggests, “the form that was most likely to “go public” in Jamaica was
Myal, the good” (1984: 88). Whereas Obeah, the alleged 'evil' practice went
strategically underground. It appears therefore more than likely that Obeah and
Myal as ...
8
Martha Brae's Two Histories: European Expansion and ...
tianity. During slavery, the roots of Revivalism were forged in Obeah-Myal
ideology, created through Caribbean culture-building and consolidated by the
mid-eighteenth century. "Obeah" originally referred most often to morally neutral
magical ...
9
Obi; or, The History of Three-Fingered Jack
Joseph Williams speculates that myal was developed as a vehicle by way of
which the Ashanti priest, or okomfo, transposed old religious rites and became
the eponymous myal-man. Myalism was opposed to obeah, even as the okomfo,
...
William Earle, Srinivas Aravamudan, 2005
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Reading Erna Brodber: Uniting the Black Diaspora Through ...
In Myal, Brodber revises the definition of myalists to make it inclusive and
syncretic and rewrites received colonial history in order to reveal the possibility of
escaping its legacy by fighting "spirit thievery," the name she gives the
psychological ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MYAL»
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myal is used in the context of the following news items.
Hear tunes from Henry VIII's era at Winchester's Hat Fair this weekend
THIS Saturday Tudor musicians Myal Pyper will be enticing visitors into Winchester's Westgate Museum with tunes familiar to citizens at the ... «Daily Echo, Jul 15»
Brodber presents Nothing's Mat
Afterwards, when Bucknor went to teach at the University of Western Ontario, where he taught Commonwealth literature he made Myal a core ... «Jamaica Gleaner, Jun 15»
The evolution of Myalism – Part 3
MYAL PEOPLE believed in the eradication of evil and ridding the land of obeah charms as they prepared for the coming of Jesus Christ. «Jamaica Gleaner, Jun 15»
Shaggy on Billboard again
She is the author of five novels - Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home (1980), Myal (1988), Louisiana (1994), The Rainmaker's Mistake ... «Jamaica Gleaner, Mar 15»
Police beat CASTLE SHANNON
Disorderly conduct: Police cited Walter Myal, 32, of Grove Road, Pittsburgh, Dec. 31 for disorderly conduct. CECIL TOWNSHIP. Theft: David ... «The Almanac, Jan 15»
Alexandria and Arlington home sales
1004-Apple Federal Credit Union to Zhongyu Mou, $166,000. Eisenhower Ave., 4860, No. 183-Lisa C. Thorne to Dwayne A. Myal, $290,000. «Washington Post, Dec 14»
MANVILLE: Carnival is in town through Saturday
Hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken fingers and fries, gyros, beef on a stick and sausage and pepper sandwiches. The MYAL will sell pizza fritz, ... «Packet Online, Jun 14»
Most Dalit students dropout before SLC exams
Similar is the condition of Dalit students at Mayhelepokhari Secondary School at Myal Pokhari VDC of Gulmi. Although the school had admitted ... «Republica, Jun 14»
Dr Erna Brodber appointed writer-in-residence at UWI
Her novels include The Rainmaker's Mistake (2006), Louisiana (1994), Myal (1988) and Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home (1980). «Jamaica Gleaner, Sep 13»
Head off to Tudor fayre!
Back in the Market Square you can meet Peg and Myal. Peg will tell disgusting stories from Tudor times. Including how Tudors preserved all ... «Bucks Herald, Sep 13»
