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Article: Ennis Barrington Edmonds. Rastafari: from Outcasts to Culture Bearers.(Book Review)
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- Utopian Studies
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- January 1, 2004
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Ennis Barrington Edmonds. Rastafari: From Outcasts to Culture Bearers.
New York: Oxford UP, 2003. xiv + 194 pp. $29.95 USD.
EVEN THOUGH REPRESENTATIONS of Rastafarians and Rastafari style have grown ever more prominent in Western culture (think, for instance, of the albino dreadlock-sporting villains of The Matrix Reloaded), popular and academic knowledge of the Rastafarian movement has remained limited to a series of stereotypes. Rastafarians sport dreadlocks, are vegetarian, and espouse an unflagging hatred of a Western modernity they have tagged "Babylon"; they live meagerly and communally in the Jamaican countryside, where they smoke ganja, play ...