Crossroads and cosmologies : diasporas and ethnogenesis in the new world /

A far-reaching anthropological study of African and African American religions, German American folkways, and archaeological methodology.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fennell, Christopher
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2007.
Colección:Cultural heritage studies.
Temas:
Black people > America > Social life and customs.
Africans > America > Social life and customs.
Black people > America > Ethnic identity.
Africans > America > Ethnic identity.
African diaspora.
Ethnicity > America > History.
Ethnohistory > America.
Cosmology > History.
Black people > Race identity > America.
Personnes noires > Amérique > Mœurs et coutumes.
Africains > Amérique > Mœurs et coutumes.
Personnes noires > Identité ethnique > Amérique.
Africains > Identité ethnique > Amérique.
Africains > Pays étrangers.
Ethnicité > Amérique > Histoire.
Ethnohistoire > Amérique.
Cosmologie > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
African diaspora
Africans > Social life and customs
Black people > Ethnic identity
Black people > Social life and customs
Cosmology
Ethnic relations
Ethnicity
Ethnohistory
Manners and customs
America > Social life and customs.
America > Ethnic relations.
Amérique > Mœurs et coutumes.
Amérique > Relations interethniques.
America
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Diasporas, histories, and heritage
  • From the diminutive to the transatlantic
  • Shared meanings and culture dynamics
  • Core symbols across a continuum
  • A core symbol of the BaKongo culture
  • Marking social group contours
  • Expressions of group identity and individual purpose
  • A model for diaspora analysis
  • Interpreting cultural expressions through ethnohistorical analogy
  • BaKongo culture in West Central Africa
  • Predicting facets of symbolic expression in new settings
  • African diasporas and symbolism in the New World
  • Private rituals in North America
  • Yoruba and BaKongo dynamics in Cuba
  • Innovation of new emblems in Haiti and Brazil
  • Afro-Christian dynamics in North America
  • European diasporas and the persistence of magic
  • From the Palatinate to Virginia
  • Hexerei practices among German-Americans
  • Social networks and interpersonal conflicts
  • Expressions instrumental and emblematic
  • Creolization, hybridity, and ethnogenic bricolage.

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