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Meaning of RASTAFARI

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 Definition: [n]  a Black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s; Rastafarians regard Ras Tafari as divine; males grow hair in long dreadlocks and wear woolen caps; use marijuana and listen to reggae music
 
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 Synonyms: Rastas
 
 See Also: Rasta, Rastafarian, religious movement, youth subculture

 

 

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Rastafari
Traces the cultural development of the Rastafari movement from the slave trade in the sixteenth century, when it developed as a resistance reaction

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