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Materialities of ritual in the Black Atlantic / edited by Akinwumi Ogundiran and Paula Saunders.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blacks in the diaspora.
- Blacks in the Diaspora
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African diaspora.
- Black people--Material culture--Atlantic Ocean Region.
- Black people.
- Black people--Material culture--Caribbean Area.
- African Americans--Material culture.
- African Americans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (419 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 who
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-253-01391-7
- OCLC:
- 892430190
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