Africas of the Americas beyond the search for origins in the study of Afro-Atlantic religions /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Palmié, Stephan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Series:Studies on religion in Africa ; 33.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: On predications of Africanity / Stephan Palmié
  • On leaving and joining Africanness through religion : the 'Black Caribs' across multiple diasporic horizons / Paul Christopher Johnson
  • From Igbo Israeli to African Christian : the emergence of racial identity in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting narrative / James Sidbury
  • Governing man-gods : spiritism and the struggle for progress in Republican Cuba / Reinaldo L. Román
  • Divining the past : the linguistic reconstruction of 'African' roots in diasporic ritual registers and songs / Kristina Wirtz
  • Ecué's Atlantic : an essay in methodology / Stephan Palmié
  • Dona Preta's trek to Cachoeira / Brian Brazeal
  • Transatlantic dialogue : Roger Bastide and the African American religions / Stefania Capone
  • Peasants, migrants and the discovery of African traditions : ritual and social change in Lowland Haiti / Karen E. Richman
  • African accents, speaking child spirits and the Brazilian popular imaginary : permutations of Africanness in Candomblé / Elina Hartikainen
  • Free to be a slave : slavery as metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic religions / J. Lorand Matory.