Diaspora conversions : Black Carib religion and the recovery of Africa /
By joining a diaspora, a society may begin to change its religious, ethnic, and even racial identifications by rethinking its ""pasts."" This pioneering multisite ethnography explores how this phenomenon is affecting the remarkable religion of the Garifuna, historically known as...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- What is diasporic religion?
- "These sons of freedom" : Back Caribs across three diasporic horizons
- Shamans at work in the villages
- Shamans at work in New York
- Ritual in the homeland; or, making the land "home" in ritual
- Ritual in the Bronx
- Finding Africa in New York
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Trajectory of a moving object, the caldero.