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Crossroads and cosmologies : diasporas and ethnogenesis in the new world / Christopher C. Fennell ; foreword by Robert Farris Thompson ; editor's foreword by Paul A. Shackel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fennell, Christopher.
- Series:
- Cultural heritage studies.
- Cultural heritage studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black people--America--Social life and customs.
- Black people.
- Africans--America--Social life and customs.
- Africans.
- Black people--America--Ethnic identity.
- Africans--America--Ethnic identity.
- African diaspora.
- Ethnicity--America--History.
- Ethnicity.
- Ethnohistory--America.
- Ethnohistory.
- Cosmology--History.
- Cosmology.
- America--Social life and customs.
- America.
- America--Ethnic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A far-reaching anthropological study of African and African American religions, German American folkways, and archaeological methodology
- Contents:
- Introduction: Diasporas, histories, and heritage
- From the diminutive to the transatlantic
- Shared meanings and culture dynamics
- Core symbols across a continuum
- A core symbol of the BaKongo culture
- Marking social group contours
- Expressions of group identity and individual purpose
- A model for diaspora analysis
- Interpreting cultural expressions through ethnohistorical analogy
- BaKongo culture in West Central Africa
- Predicting facets of symbolic expression in new settings
- African diasporas and symbolism in the New World
- Private rituals in North America
- Yoruba and BaKongo dynamics in Cuba
- Innovation of new emblems in Haiti and Brazil
- Afro-Christian dynamics in North America
- European diasporas and the persistence of magic
- From the Palatinate to Virginia
- Hexerei practices among German-Americans
- Social networks and interpersonal conflicts
- Expressions instrumental and emblematic
- Creolization, hybridity, and ethnogenic bricolage.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-158) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-3771-9
- OCLC:
- 735603238
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