Exhibition Review
Mystics and Militants: A Look at the Rastafari Kingdom
Andrew Councill for The New York Times
A display devoted to the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie at the
"Discovering Rastafari!" exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of
Natural History. More Photos >

By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Published: May 10, 2008
WASHINGTON - Bob Marley, ganja smoking and dreadlocks are here - how could
they not be in what is billed as the first exhibition about the Rastafari
ever mounted in a major museum? Reggae, the ceremonial smoking of marijuana,
and tightly coiled locks of hair could hardly be omitted when the
Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History devotes a show to this
Jamaican-born subculture. Most of us, in fact, know of Rastafari only
through these popular manifestations.

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Prince Emmanuel's Pride regalia and Rastafari buttons. More Photos