Rethinking the African diaspora : the making of a Black Atlantic world in the Bight of Benin and Brazil / editors, Kristin Mann and Edna G. Bay.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mann, Kristin, 1946- editor.

Bay, Edna G., editor.

Alexander Street Press.

Series:

Studies in slave and post-slave societies and cultures 1462-1770.

Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures, 1462-1770

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African diaspora.

Brazilians--Benin, Bight of--History.

Brazilians.

Brazil--Civilization--African influences.

Brazil.

Africa, West--Civilization--Brazilian influences.

Africa, West.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge (Publisher), 2013.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

As a result of new research, we can now paint a more complex picture of peoples and cultures in the south Atlantic, from the earliest period of the slave trade up to the present. The nine papers in this volume indicate that a dynamic and continuous movement of peoples east as well as west across the Atlantic forged diverse and vibrant re-inventions and re-interpretations of the rich mix of cultures represented by Africans and peoples of African descent on both continents.

Contents:

Introduction / Kristin Mann and Edna G. Bay

Shifting paradigms in the study of the African diaspora and of Atlantic history and culture / Kristin Mann

The evolution of the Brazilian community in Ouidah / Robin Law

Protection, political exile, and the Atlantic slave-trade : history and collective memory in Dahomey / Edna G. Bay

Some reflections on the Brazilian legacy in Dahomey / Elis?e Soumonni

The identity, contributions, and ideology of the Aguda (Afro-Brazilians) of the Gulf of Benin : a reinterpretation / Olabiyi Babalola Yai

Buying and selling Korans in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro / Alberto Da Costa E Silva

The Jeje in the Tambor de Mina of Maranh?o and in the Candombl? of Bahia / Luis Nicolau Par?s

Candombl? in nineteenth-century Bahia : priests, followers, clients / Jo?o Jos? Reis

Africa in the reinvention of nineteenth-century Afro-Bahian identity / Kim D. Butler.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed September 11, 2019).

First published 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

OCLC:

1082221755

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