Becoming Rasta by Charles Price - 9780814767474

Becoming RastaOrigins of Rastafari Identity in Jamaica\nAuthor(s): Charles Price\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814767474, 978-0814767474\nSynopsis\nAn exploration into why and how Jamaicans become Rastafari in spite of increasing incrimination of the religion\n So much has been written about the Rastafari, yet we know so little about why and how people join the Rastafari movement. Although popular understandings evoke images of dreadlocks, reggae, and marijuana, Rastafarians were persecuted in their country, becoming a people seeking social justice. Yet new adherents continued to convert to Rastafari despite facing adverse reactions from their fellow citizens and from their British rulers.\n Charles Price draws on in-depth interviews to reveal the personal experiences of those who adopted the religion in the 1950s to 1970s, one generation past the movement's emergence. By talking with these Ra.