M. Heywood (ed.)

Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora

Herausgeber: Heywood, Linda M.

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Produktbeschreibung

Studies the importance of Central African culture to the cultures of the Americas since the Atlantic slave trade.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9780521002783
• ISBN-10: 0521002788
• Artikelnr.: 21859716

Inhaltsangabe

Forward Jan Vansina; Introduction Linda Heywood; Part I. Central Africa:
Society, Culture and the Slave Trade: 1. Central Africa during the era of
the slave trade, c. 1490s-1850s Joseph C. Miller; 2. Religious and
ceremonial life in the Congo and Mbundu areas, 1500-1700 John K. Thornton;
3. Portuguese into African: the eighteenth century Central African
background to Atlantic Creole culture Linda Heywood; Part II. Central
Africans in Brazil: 4. Central Africans in Central Brazil, 1780-1835 Mary
Karasch; 5. Who is king of the Congo? A new look at African and
Afro-Brazilian Kings in Brazil Elizabeth W. Kiddy; 6. The great
porpoise-skull strike: Central-African water spirits and slave identity in
early nineteenth-century Rio De Janeiro Robert W. Slenes; Part III. Central
Africans in Haiti and Spanish America: 7. Twins, Simbi spirits and Lwas in
Kongo and Haiti Wyatt MacGaffey; 8. The Central African presence in Spanish
Maroon communities Jane Landers; 9. Central African popular Christianity
and the making of Haitian Vodou religion Hein Vanhee; 10. Kongolese
catholic influences on Haitian popular Catholicism: a socio-historical
exploration Terry Rey; Part IV. Central Africans in North America and the
Caribbean: 11. 'Walk in the Feenda': West-Central Africans and the forest
in the South Carolina-Georgia low country Ras Michael B. Brown; 12.
Liberated Central Africans in nineteenth century Guyana Monic Schuler; 13.
Combat and the crossing of the Kalunga Thomas J. Desch-Obi.