| Materialities of Ritual in the Black Atlantic Contributor(s): Ogundiran, Akinwumi (Editor), Saunders, Paula (Editor), Laroche, Cheryl Janifer (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0253013860 ISBN-13: 9780253013866 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $61.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Black Studies (global) - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 306.450 |
| LCCN: 2014010218 |
| Series: Blacks in the Diaspora (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1.42" H x 5.89" W x 9.7" (1.67 lbs) 410 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Ethnic Orientation - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Focusing on everyday rituals, the essays in this volume look at spheres of social action and the places throughout the Atlantic world where African-descended communities have expressed their values, ideas, beliefs, and spirituality in material terms. The contributors trace the impact of encounters with the Atlantic world on African cultural formation, how entanglement with commerce, commodification, and enslavement and with colonialism, emancipation, and self-rule manifested itself in the shaping of ritual acts such as those associated with birth, death, healing, and protection. Taken as a whole, the book offers new perspectives on what the materials of rituals can tell us about the intimate processes of cultural transformation and the dynamics of the human condition. |