Shackled Sentiments

Slaves, Spirits, and Memories in the African Diaspora
Herausgeber: Montgomery, Eric J.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shackled Sentiments: Slaves, Spirits, and Memories in the African Diaspora is the first comprehensive ethnographic and historical study of slavery and its outcomes in numerous geographic contexts. The contributors to this collection traverse region, theme, and time to construct a book of great scale and scope.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9781498586009
• ISBN-10: 1498586007
• Artikelnr.: 61181172

Autorenporträt

Eric J. Montgomery is cultural anthropologist at the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Wayne State University and the Department of Anthropology at Central Michigan University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: American Women Anthropologists of the 20th Century on Haitian
Vodou: A Brief Review
Natacha Giafferi-Dombre
Chapter 2: Vodou as the Embryo and Marker of Haitian Socio-Historical
Identity
Nixon Cleophat
Chapter 3: Remembering Our Mothers: Black Women, Slavery, and Maternal
Power in Barbados and Jamaica
Maureen Elgersman Lee
Chapter 4: The Past is Present: Slavery, Personhood, and Mimesis in Ewe
Gorovodu and Mama Tchamba (Togo)
Eric Montgomery
Chapter 5: Slavery, Possession and Witchcraft in the Sudan: The Journey of
the Zar Tumbura Cult
Gerasimos Makris
Chapter 6: Living with the Ghosts of Slavery in Western Eweland: Taming
Ancestral Energies and Creating Ritual Cultures
Meera Venkatachalam
Chapter 7: Possession, Power, and Slavery in Eastern Africa
Beatrice Nicolini
Chapter 8: Slavery and Its Discontents: Shackled History as Spiritual
Resources in Jamaica
Christian Vannier
Chapter 9: The Language of the Slave Spirits in Brazil
Laura Alvarez Lopez