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.
Author: Akinwumi Ogundiran
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Published: 10/01/2014
Pages: 410
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.67lbs
Size: 9.70h x 5.89w x 1.42d
ISBN13: 9780253013866
ISBN10: 0253013860
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Black Studies (Global)
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
About the Author
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.