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Africas of the Americas : Beyond the Search for Origins in the Study of Afro-Atlantic Religions.
Title:
Africas of the Americas : Beyond the Search for Origins in the Study of Afro-Atlantic Religions.
Author:
Palmié, Stephan.
ISBN:
9789047432708
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (396 pages)
Series:
Studies of Religion in Africa ; v.33

Studies of Religion in Africa
Contents:
Introduction: On Predications of Africanity (Stephan Palmie) -- On Leaving and Joining Africanness Through Religion: The 'Black Caribs' Across Multiple Diasporic Horizons (Paul Christopher Johnson) -- From Igbo Israeli to African Christian: The Emergence of Racial Identity in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative (James Sidbury) -- Governing Man-Gods: Spiritism and the Struggle for Progress in Republican Cuba (Reinaldo L. Roman) -- Divining the Past: The Linguistic Reconstruction of 'African' Roots in Diasporic Ritual Registers and Songs (Kristina Wirtz) -- Ecué's Atlantic: An Essay in Methodology (Stephan Palmié) -- Dona Preta's Trek to Cachoeira (Brian Brazeal) -- Transatlantic Dialogue: Roger Bastide and the African American Religions (Stefania Capone) -- Peasants, Migrants and the Discovery of African Traditions: Ritual and Social Change in Lowland Haiti (Karen E. Richman) -- African Accents, Speaking Child Spirits and the Brazilian Popular Imaginary: Permutations of Africanness in Candomblé (Elina Hartikainen) -- Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions (J. Lorand Matory) -- Index.
Abstract:
Until recently, African Americanist scholarship has been dominated by programmatic searches for African origins. This book aims to transcend this research agenda by exploring the ritual and discursive production and reproduction of conceptions of Africa and Africanity in the Americas.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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