Crossroads and cosmologies
Subtitle: diasporas and ethnogenesis in the new world
By: Christopher C. Fennell ; foreword by Robert Farris Thompson ; editor's foreword by Paul A. Shackel
Series: Cultural heritage studies
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780813031415
Subjects: Blacks -- America -- Social life and customs; Africans -- America -- Social life and customs; Blacks -- America -- Ethnic identity; Africans -- America -- Ethnic identity; African diaspora; Ethnicity -- America -- History; Ethnohistory -- America; Cosmology -- History; America -- Social life and customs; America -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-158) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Diasporas, histories, and heritage; title: From the diminutive to the transatlantic; title: Shared meanings and culture dynamics; title: Core symbols across a continuum; title: A core symbol of the BaKongo culture; title: Marking social group contours; title: Expressions of group identity and individual purpose; title: A model for diaspora analysis; title: Interpreting cultural expressions through ethnohistorical analogy; title: BaKongo culture in West Central Africa; title: Predicting facets of symbolic expression in new settings; title: African diasporas and symbolism in the New World; title: Private rituals in North America; title: Yoruba and BaKongo dynamics in Cuba; title: Innovation of new emblems in Haiti and Brazil; title: Afro-Christian dynamics in North America; title: European diasporas and the persistence of magic; title: From the Palatinate to Virginia; title: Hexerei practices among German-Americans; title: Social networks and interpersonal conflicts; title: Expressions instrumental and emblematic; title: Creolization, hybridity, and ethnogenic bricolage