Materialities of Ritual in the Black Atlantic /

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Focusing on everyday rituals, the essays in this volume look at spheres of social action and the places throughout the Atlantic world where African-descended communities have expressed their values, ideas, beliefs, and spirituality in material terms. The contributors trace the impact of encounters w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Saunders, Paula V. (Autor, Editor ), Ogundiran, Akinwumi (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Ritual.
Material culture.
African diaspora.
African Americans > Material culture.
RELIGION > Antiquities & Archaeology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Rituel > États-Unis.
Rituel > Caraïbes (Region)
Rituel > Atlantique, Region de l'.
Culture materielle > États-Unis.
Culture materielle > Caraïbes (Region)
Culture materielle > Atlantique, Region de l'.
Noirs americains > Culture materielle.
Noirs > Culture materielle > Caraïbes (Region)
Noirs > Culture materielle > Atlantique, Region de l'.
Africains > Pays etrangers.
Ritual > United States.
Ritual > Caribbean Area.
Ritual > Atlantic Ocean Region.
Material culture > United States.
Material culture > Caribbean Area.
Material culture > Atlantic Ocean Region.
Black people > Material culture > Caribbean Area.
Black people > Material culture > Atlantic Ocean Region.
Verenigde Staten.
Atlantische Oceaan.
Caribisch gebied.
United States.
Caribbean Area.
Atlantic Ocean Region.
Electronic books.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • On the materiality of Black Atlantic rituals / Akinwumi Ogundiran and Paula Saunders
  • Reconstructing the archaeology of movement in northern Ghana : insights into past ritual posture and performance / Timothy Insoll and Benjamin W. Kankpeyeng
  • Sacred vortices of the African Atlantic world : materiality of the accumulative aesthetic in the Hueda kingdom, 1650 / Neil L. Norman
  • Cowries and rituals of self-realization in the Yoruba region, West Africa, ca. 1600 / Akinwumi Ogundiran
  • Spiritual vibrations of historic Kormantse and the search for African diaspora identity and freedom / E. Kofi Agorsah
  • Rituals of iron in the Black Atlantic world / Candice Goucher
  • Transatlantic meanings : African rituals and material culture in the early modern Spanish Caribbean / Pablo F. Gomez
  • "Instruments of obeah" : the significance of ritual objects in the Jamaican legal system, 1760 to the present / Danielle Boaz
  • Charms and spiritual practitioners : negotiating power dynamics in an enslaved African community in Jamaica / Paula Saunders
  • Mundane or spiritual? the interpretation of glass bottle containers found on two sites of the African diaspora / Matthew Reeves
  • Ritual bundle in colonial Annapolis / Mark P. Leone, Jocelyn E. Knauf and Amanda Tang
  • Dexterous creation : material manifestations of instrumental symbolism in the Americas / Christopher C. Fennell
  • Ritualized figuration in special African American yards / Grey Gundaker
  • "I cry 'I am' for all to hear me" : the informal cemetery in central Georgia / Hugh B. Matternes and Staci Richey
  • Spatial and material transformations in commemoration on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands / Helen C. Blouet
  • "As above, so below" : ritual and commemoration in African American archaeological contexts in the northern United States / Cheryl J. LaRoche
  • Cape Coast Castle and rituals of memory / Brempong Osei-Tutu.

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