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Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Time, Transforming Cultures / by Maureen Warner Lewis
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, Maureen Warner, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Family and Culture.
- Social customs.
- Cultural assimilation.
- Cultural change and history.
- African diaspora.
- Central Africa (Region).
- West Indies and Caribbean.
- Local Subjects:
- Family and Culture.
- Social customs.
- Cultural assimilation.
- Cultural change and history.
- African diaspora.
- Central Africa (Region).
- West Indies and Caribbean.
- Genre:
- 103
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (428 pages)
- Other Title:
- Central Africa in the Caribbean: Transcending Time, Transforming Cultures
- Place of Publication:
- Kingston, Kingston Parish : University of the West Indies, 2002.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- Central Africa in the Caribbean is the product of more than three decades of research. Maureen Warner-Lewis's pioneering study analyses some of the main lineaments of the Central African cultural legacy in the Caribbean, with fascinating transatlantic comparative data. She identifies Central African cultural forms in areas settled by the Koongo, Mbundu and Ovimbundu (the two present-day Congos and Angola) and illuminates Caribbean thought and customs through comparison with those cultures. The work is based on extensive primary and secondary sources, oral interviews, folk-tales, and songs. Additionally, through her knowledge of the functional languages of the region - Spanish, English, French, and their creoles - Warner-Lewis accesses a wide range of pre-existing research on the Central African cultural impact on the Americas; this gives her work a unique pan-Caribbean breadth. Warner-Lewis's multidisciplinary approach highlights the debate concerning the origin and transformation of cultural forms in the Caribbean against a larger background of African culture and economy, and Atlantic World colonialism and slavery. This book is invaluable for scholars and general readers interested in African diaspora studies, African and Caribbean history, linguistics, music, religion, and cultural anthropology.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed May 10, 2022).
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