Cosmopolitanism from the Global South: Caribbean Spiritual Repatriation to Ethiopia

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- About the Book -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Cosmopolitan Sensibilities and Outernational Imaginaries -- 1.1 Spiritual Repatriation -- 1.2 Shashamane -- 1.3 Rastafari Symbolism -- 1.4 The Plantation and Creole Subjectivities -- 1.5 Cosmopolitan Theory -- 1.6 Migration -- 1.7 Organisation of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: "Word-Sound-Power" -- 2.1 Everyday Performativity -- 2.2 Itiopia/Ethiopia in Rastafari Worldview -- 2.3 Haile Selassie I -- 2.4 Sighting Rastafari and "Knowing Your Bible" -- 2.5 Testing Strangers: To Suss Out a Person -- 2.6 Chanting: Dread Talk, Morality and the Commodification of the Word (Music) -- References -- Chapter 3: Ambiguities of Belonging -- 3.1 A Lineage of Ethiopian Royalty, an Abyssinian Pedigree -- 3.2 The West Indian God of Rastafari -- 3.3 An Everyday Micro-conflict -- 3.4 Reclaiming Blackness -- References -- Chapter 4: Narratives of Community: His Majesty's People -- 4.1 Origin Stories -- 4.2 Narrative Self-Making -- 4.3 Everyday Practices of Relatedness -- 4.4 Being Ethiopian -- 4.5 Being Heartical -- References -- Chapter 5: Making a Living -- 5.1 Outernational Livelihoods -- 5.2 Household Earnings -- 5.3 Routine Precarity -- 5.4 The Western Union Run -- 5.5 The Neighbourhood Shop -- 5.6 Translocal Reciprocity -- 5.7 Material Betterment, Status and In-Kind Remittances -- References -- Chapter 6: Family and Kinship: Rastafari Yards -- 6.1 Creole Kinship -- 6.2 My Yard: Family and Household -- 6.3 A Rastafari Yard and an Ethiopian Beit -- 6.4 Making Place, Reproducing Culture -- 6.5 Gender, Class and the Sexual Division of Labour -- 6.6 Being Rooted: Locating Identities in Time and Space -- References -- Chapter 7: Rastafari Citizen-Subjectivities -- 7.1 Modes of Belonging -- 7.2 The Legal Face of Citizenship -- 7.3 The Generation Born on the Land Grant.