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Africas of the Americas : beyond the search for origins in the study of Afro-Atlantic religions /
The anthropology and history of African American religious formations has long been dominated by approaches aiming to recover and authenticate the historical transatlantic continuities linking such traditions to identifiable African source cultures. While not denying such continuities, the contribut...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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| Colección: | Studies on religion in Africa ;
33. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The anthropology and history of African American religious formations has long been dominated by approaches aiming to recover and authenticate the historical transatlantic continuities linking such traditions to identifiable African source cultures. While not denying such continuities, the contributors to this volume seek to transcend this research agenda by bracketing 'Africa' and 'African pasts' as objective givens, and asking instead what role notions of 'Africanity' and 'pastfulness' play in the social and ritual lives of historical and contemporary practitioners of Afro-Atlantic religious. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 388 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789047432708 9047432703 |
| ISSN: | 0169-9814 ; |