Africas of the Americas
Subtitle: beyond the search for origins in the study of Afro-Atlantic religions
By: edited by Stephan Palmié.
Contributors: Palmié, Stephan.
Series: Studies of religion in Africa -- v. 33
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9789004164727
Subjects: Afro-Caribbean cults; Africa -- Religion; Caribbean Area -- Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: On predications of africanity / Stephan Palmie; title: On leaving and joining africanness through religion : the 'Black Caribs' across multiple diasporic horizons / Paul Christopher Johnson; title: From Igbo Israeli to African Christian : the emergence of racial identity in Olaudah Equiano's interesting narrative / James Sidbury; title: Governing man-gods : spiritism and the struggle for progress in Republican Cuba / Reinaldo L. Roman; title: Divining the past : the linguistic reconstruction of 'African' roots in diasporic ritual registers and songs / Kristina Wirtz; title: Ecue's atlantic : an essay in methodology / Stephan Palmie; title: Dona Preta's trek to Cachoeira / Brian Brazeal; title: Transatlantic dialogue : Roger Bastide and the African American religions / Stefania Capone; title: Peasants, migrants and the discovery of African traditions : ritual and social change in Lowland Haiti / Karen E. Richman; title: African accents, speaking child spirits, and the Brazilian popular imaginary : permutations of Africanness in Candomble / Elina Hartikainen; title: Free to be a slave : slavery as metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic religions / J. Lorand Matory.