Magic, Modernity, and Race in Seychelles: The Situation of Grigri in the Modern Creole Order
In 1977, a socialist coup d'etat in Seychelles instituted an era of anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, and pro-African Creole nationalism. One aspect of Creoleness – witchcraft, or ‘grigri’ – was excluded from the Creole canon. Using grigri as a lens through which to examine modernity and race in...
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Curtin University
2023
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/92791 |
| Summary: | In 1977, a socialist coup d'etat in Seychelles instituted an era of anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, and pro-African Creole nationalism. One aspect of Creoleness – witchcraft, or ‘grigri’ – was excluded from the Creole canon.
Using grigri as a lens through which to examine modernity and race in Seychelles, this ethnographic research explores how grigri has signified a pre-modern blackness and how Creole people have responded to such colonial logics. |
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