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
Autor principal: Manigault-Bryant, LeRhonda S., 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Duke University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Börngen, ...
Spiritismus
Nekromantie
Gullah
Spiritualism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
RELIGION > Reference.
RELIGION > Essays.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
spiritualism.
Spiritisme.
Gullahs > Caroline du Sud > Religion.
Spiritualism
Gullahs > South Carolina > Religion.
Gullah women > Religious life > South Carolina.
South Carolina
South Carolina.
Caroline du Sud > Vie religieuse.
South Carolina > Religious life and customs.
Electronic books.
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 (298 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9780822376705

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