UID:
almafu_9959677777302883
Format:
1 online resource (299 p.)
ISBN:
0-8223-5674-0
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0-8223-7670-9
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 a
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Talking to the dead -- Gullah/Geechee women -- Culture keepers -- Folk religion -- "Ah tulk to de dead all de time" -- "Sendin' up my timbah" -- Lived memory -- Between the living and the dead.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-5663-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822376705
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