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Materialities of Ritual in the Black Atlantic

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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.

Author Biography:

Akinwumi Ogundiran is Professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology, and History and Chair of the Africana Studies Department at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is editor (with Toyin Falola) of Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora (IUP, 2007). Paula Saunders is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York.
Release date NZ
October 3rd, 2014
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Contributions by Amanda Tang
  • Contributions by Cheryl Janifer LaRoche
  • Contributions by Christopher C. Fennell
  • Contributions by Grey Gunaker
  • Contributions by Helen Blouet
  • Contributions by Hugh B. Matternes
  • Contributions by Jocelyn E. Knauf
  • Contributions by Staci Richey
  • Edited by Akinwumi Ogundiran
  • Edited by Paula Saunders
Illustrations
9 Halftones, black and white; 38 Illustrations, black and white
Pages
410
Dimensions
150x246x36
ISBN-13
9780253013866
Product ID
21731527

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