Diaspora Conversions : Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa / Paul Christopher Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Paul Christopher, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Garifuna (Caribbean people)--New York (State)--New York Metropolitan Area--Ethnic identity.

Garifuna (Caribbean people).

Garifuna (Caribbean people)--New York (State)--New York Metropolitan Area--Religion.

Garifuna (Caribbean people)--Honduras--Migrations.

Garifuna (Caribbean people)--Honduras--Ethnic identity.

Garifuna (Caribbean people)--Honduras--Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2007]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By joining a diaspora, a society may begin to change its religious, ethnic, and even racial identifications by rethinking its "pasts." This pioneering multisite ethnography explores how this phenomenon is affecting the remarkable religion of the Garifuna, historically known as the Black Caribs, from the Central American coast of the Caribbean. It is estimated that one-third of the Garifuna have migrated to New York City over the past fifty years. Paul Christopher Johnson compares Garifuna spirit possession rituals performed in Honduran villages with those conducted in New York, and what emerges is a compelling picture of how the Garifuna engage ancestral spirits across multiple diasporic horizons. His study sheds new light on the ways diasporic religions around the world creatively plot itineraries of spatial memory that at once recover and remold their histories.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. What Is Diasporic Religion?

2. "These Sons of Freedom": Black Caribs across Three Diasporic Horizons

3. Shamans at Work in the Villages

4. Shamans at Work in New York

5. Ritual in the Homeland; Or, Making the Land "Home" in Ritual

6. Ritual in the Bronx

7. Finding Africa in New York

Conclusion

Appendix. Trajectory of a Moving Object, the Caldero

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-317) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612772146

9781282772144

1282772147

9780520940215

0520940210

9781435611368

1435611365

OCLC:

476111587