Talking to the dead : religion, music, and lived memory among Gullah-Geechee women /

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Talking to the Dead is an ethnography of seven Gullah/Geechee women from the South Carolina lowcountry. These women communicate with their ancestors through dreams, prayer, and visions and traditional crafts and customs, such as storytelling, basket making, and ecstatic singing in their churches. Li...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Manigault-Bryant, LeRhonda S., 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2014.
Temas:
Börngen, ...
Gullah women > Religious life > South Carolina.
Gullahs > South Carolina > Religion.
Spiritualism.
Spiritualism
Gullahs > Caroline du Sud > Religion.
Spiritisme.
spiritualism.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
RELIGION > Essays.
RELIGION > Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Gullah
Nekromantie
Spiritismus
South Carolina > Religious life and customs.
Caroline du Sud > Vie religieuse.
South Carolina.
South Carolina
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Talking to the Dead is an ethnography of seven Gullah/Geechee women from the South Carolina lowcountry. These women communicate with their ancestors through dreams, prayer, and visions and traditional crafts and customs, such as storytelling, basket making, and ecstatic singing in their churches. Like other Gullah/Geechee women of the South Carolina and Georgia coasts, these women, through their active communication with the deceased, make choices and receive guidance about how to live out their faith and engage with the living. LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant emphasizes that this com.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xix, 278 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780822376705
0822376709

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