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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| author | Palmyre, Michael Gilbert George |
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| description | 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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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-927912023-07-20T03:57:17Z Magic, Modernity, and Race in Seychelles: The Situation of Grigri in the Modern Creole Order Palmyre, Michael Gilbert George 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. 2023 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/92791 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Palmyre, Michael Gilbert George Magic, Modernity, and Race in Seychelles: The Situation of Grigri in the Modern Creole Order |
| title | Magic, Modernity, and Race in Seychelles:
The Situation of Grigri in the Modern Creole Order |
| title_full | Magic, Modernity, and Race in Seychelles:
The Situation of Grigri in the Modern Creole Order |
| title_fullStr | Magic, Modernity, and Race in Seychelles:
The Situation of Grigri in the Modern Creole Order |
| title_full_unstemmed | Magic, Modernity, and Race in Seychelles:
The Situation of Grigri in the Modern Creole Order |
| title_short | Magic, Modernity, and Race in Seychelles:
The Situation of Grigri in the Modern Creole Order |
| title_sort | magic, modernity, and race in seychelles:
the situation of grigri in the modern creole order |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/92791 |