Cultures of the lusophone Black Atlantic / edited by Nancy Priscilla Naro, Roger Sansi-Roca, and David H. Treece.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Naro, Nancy Priscilla.

Sansi-Roca, Roger.

Treece, Dave.

Series:

Studies of the Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people.

History.

Civilization.

Portuguese-speaking countries--Civilization--African influences.

Portuguese-speaking countries.

Black people--Portuguese-speaking countries--History.

Cultural fusion.

Physical Description:

ix, 256 pages : map ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Contents:

Introduction : The Atlantic, between Scylla and Charybdis / Nancy Priscilla Naro, Roger Sansi-Roca, and David H. Treece

The fetish in the lusophone Atlantic / Roger Sansi-Roca

Kriol without Creoles : rethinking Guinea's Afro-Atlantic connections (sixteenth to twentieth centuries) / Philip J. Havik

Historical roots of homosexuality in the lusophone Atlantic / Luiz Mott

Atlantic microhistories : mobility, personal ties, and slaving in the Black Atlantic world (Angola and Brazil) / Roquinaldo Ferreira

Colonial aspirations : connecting three points of the Portuguese Black Atlantic / Nancy Priscilla Naro

Agudás from Benin : "Brazilian" identity as a bridge to citizenship / Milton Guran

Emigration and the spatial production of difference from Cape Verde / Kesha D. Fikes

African and Brazilian altars in Lisbon

some considerations on the reconfigurations of the Portuguese religious field / Clara Saraiva

History and memory in Capoeira lyrics from Bahia, Brazil / Matthias Röhrig Assunção

The "Orisha religion" between syncretism and re-Africanization / Stefania Capone

Undoing Brazil : hybridity versus multiculturalism / Peter Fry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0230600476

9780230600478

OCLC:

85018682

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