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Talking to the dead : religion, music, and lived memory among Gullah-Geechee women / LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Manigault-Bryant, LeRhonda S., 1977-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gullah women--Religious life--South Carolina.
- Gullah women.
- Gullahs--South Carolina--Religion.
- Gullahs.
- Spiritualism.
- South Carolina--Religious life and customs.
- South Carolina.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (299 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 communication a
- Contents:
- Talking to the dead
- Gullah/Geechee women
- Culture keepers
- Folk religion
- "Ah tulk to de dead all de time"
- "Sendin' up my timbah"
- Lived memory
- Between the living and the dead.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822356745
- 0822356740
- 9780822376705
- 0822376709
- OCLC:
- 881608109
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