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- Title
Haile Selassie auf Jamaika.
- Authors
Ludi, Regula
- Abstract
This article reports on the intercultural exchange that occurred during the visit of Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie to the island of Jamaica in April 1966. Several topics are discussed, including how Selassie's arrival in Jamaica caused many to convert to the Rastafari movement, including the musicians Rita Marley and Bob Marley, because they believed he was the "Black Messiah," how the Rastafari cult developed in Jamaica in the 1930s after Selassie's coronation, and how the herbal drug Marijuana is religiously connected to the Rastafari beliefs. Also mentioned is that the offspring of many African slaves in Jamaica looked up Emperor Haile Selassie, despite the fact that his country of Ethiopia did not abolish slavery until the 1930s.
- Subjects
JAMAICA; ETHIOPIA; HAILE Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975; JAMAICAN history; RASTAFARIAN doctrines; SLAVERY; ETHIOPIAN history; MARIJUANA &; society; VISITS of state; AFRICAN diaspora; HISTORY; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
Historische Anthropologie, 2011, Vol 19, Issue 1, p82
- ISSN
0942-8704
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7788/ha.2011.19.1.82