Materialities of ritual in the Black Atlantic

Focusing on everyday rituals, the essays in this volume look at spheres of social action and the places throughout the Atlantic world where African-descended communities have expressed their values, ideas, beliefs, and spirituality in material terms. The contributors trace the impact of encounters w...

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Contributors: Ogundiran, Akinwumi (Editor) ; Saunders, Paula V. (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Bloomington Indiana University Press 2014
In:Year: 2014
Series/Journal:Blacks in the diaspora
Further subjects:B Material Culture (Atlantic Ocean Region)
B Ritual United States Caribisch gebied Atlantische Oceaan Verenigde Staten
B Atlantische Oceaan
B Blacks Material culture Atlantic Ocean Region
B United States
B Material Culture Caribbean Area
B Ritual Caribbean Area
B Ritual (Caribbean Area)
B Verenigde Staten
B Blacks Material culture (Atlantic Ocean Region)
B Electronic books
B Material Culture (United States)
B Ritual (United States)
B African Americans Material culture
B Blacks Material culture (Caribbean Area)
B Caribisch gebied
B Atlantic Ocean Region
B Caribbean Area
B Ritual
B Blacks Material culture Caribbean Area
B African Diaspora
B Material Culture (Caribbean Area)
B Ritual Atlantic Ocean Region
B SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
B Material Culture Atlantic Ocean Region
B SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
B Material Culture
B POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
B RELIGION ; Antiquities & Archaeology
B Ritual (Atlantic Ocean Region)
B Material Culture United States
B African Americans ; Material culture
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Summary:Focusing on everyday rituals, the essays in this volume look at spheres of social action and the places throughout the Atlantic world where African-descended communities have expressed their values, ideas, beliefs, and spirituality in material terms. The contributors trace the impact of encounters with the Atlantic world on African cultural formation, how entanglement with commerce, commodification, and enslavement and with colonialism, emancipation, and self-rule manifested itself in the shaping of ritual acts such as those associated with birth, death, healing, and protection
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
ISBN:0253013917