Rasta Community

Ennis Barrinton Edmonds did his homework when he wrote the book Rastafari because the rasta community portrayed in the youtube video is exactly as he described the rasta to be. All the elements were there; the red, gold, and green colors, the dreads, the belief in repatriation, the use of the term ini, the belief in natural living, and the strong belief in the battle between good and evil. This being said, another element of Edmonds analyses about rasta holds true, and that's that rastas area heterogeneous group.

This group of Rasta woke up at 3am in order to start prayer, an act which was done three times a day. Nowhere, at least in this video, were there signs of "reasoning" sessions and smoking of the ganja. Instead of letting there dreads hang loose and free, these rasta kept them up in turbans.

As Edmonds points out, a trademark of the rasta is that there is no centrally unifying church, and as such it makes sense that this group of rasta from the video would have slightly different rituals than the average rasta. This being said, Edmonds book so far has produced an excellent and precise picture of the Rastafari system of beliefs.