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 with the Atlantic world on African cultural formation, how entanglement with commerce, commodification, and enslavement and with colonialism, emancipation, and self-rule manifested itself in the shaping of ritual acts such as those associated with birth, death, healing, and protection. Taken as a whole, the book offers new perspectives on what the materials of rituals can tell us about the intimate processes of cultural transformation and the dynamics of the human condition."
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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 with the Atlantic world on African cultural formation, how entanglement with commerce, commodification, and enslavement and with colonialism, emancipation, and self-rule manifested itself in the shaping of ritual acts such as those associated with birth, death, healing, and protection. Taken as a whole, the book offers new perspectives on what the materials of rituals can tell us about the intimate processes of cultural transformation and the dynamics of the human condition."
Imprint | Indiana University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | October 2014 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | October 2014 |
Editors | Akinwumi Ogundiran, Paula Saunders |
Contributors | Cheryl Janifer Laroche, Helen Blouet, Staci Richey, Hugh B. Matternes, Christopher C Fennell, Grey Gunaker, Jocelyn E. Knauf, Amanda Tang |
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover - Paper over boards |
Pages | 410 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-253-01386-6 |
Barcode | 9780253013866 |
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LSN | 0-253-01386-0 |