Format:
1 Online-Ressource (304 p)
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1 table, 2 maps, 1 figure
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9780822376705
Content:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PROLOGUE Talking to the Dead -- INTRODUCTION Gullah/ Geechee Women -- CHAPTER 1 Culture Keepers -- CHAPTER 2 Folk Religion -- CHAPTER 3 "Ah Tulk to de Dead All de Time" -- CHAPTER 4 "Sendin' Up My Timbah" -- CHAPTER 5 Lived Memory -- EPILOGUE Between the Living and the Dead -- APPENDIX A Companion Audio Materials -- APPENDIX B Interview Format and Demographics -- NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Content:
Talking to the Dead is an ethnography of seven Gullah/Geechee women from the South Carolina lowcountry. These women communicate with their ancestors through dreams, prayer, and visions and traditional crafts and customs, such as storytelling, basket making, and ecstatic singing in their churches. Like other Gullah/Geechee women of the South Carolina and Georgia coasts, these women, through their active communication with the deceased, make choices and receive guidance about how to live out their faith and engage with the living. LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant emphasizes that this communication affirms the women's spiritual faith-which seamlessly integrates Christian and folk traditions-and reinforces their position as powerful culture keepers within Gullah/Geechee society. By looking in depth at this long-standing spiritual practice, Manigault-Bryant highlights the subversive ingenuity that lowcountry inhabitants use to thrive spiritually and to maintain a sense of continuity with the past
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822376705
URL:
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