UID:
almafu_9960119727202883
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 384 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-52910-4
Content:
This book, first published in 2001, sets out a paradigm that increases our understanding of African culture and the forces that led to its transformation during the period of the Atlantic slave trade and beyond, putting long over-due emphasis on the importance of Central African culture to the cultures of the United States, Brazil, and the Caribbean. Focusing on the Kongo/Angola culture zone, the book illustrates how African peoples re-shaped their cultural institutions, beliefs and practices as they interacted with Portuguese slave traders up to 1800, then follows Central Africans through all the regions where they were taken as slaves and recaptives. Here, for the first time in one volume, leading scholars of Africa, Brazil, Latin America and the Caribbean have collaborated to analyze the culture history of Africa and its diaspora. This interdisciplinary approach across geographic areas is sure to set a precedent for other scholars of Africa and its diaspora.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Central Africa during the era of the slave trade, c. 1490s-1850s /
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Religious and ceremonial life in the Kongo and Mbundu Areas, 1500-1700 /
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Portuguese into African: the eighteenth-century central African background to Atlantic Creole cultures /
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Central Africans in central Brazil, 1780-1835 /
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Who is the king of Congo? A new look at African and Afro-Brazilian Kings in Brazil /
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The great porpoise-skull strike: central African water spirits and slave identity in earl-nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro /
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Twins, Simbi spirits, and Lwas in Kongo and Haiti /
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The central African presence in Spanish maroon communities /
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Central African popular Christianity and the making of Haitian vodou religion /
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Kongolese Catholic influences on Haitian popular Catholicism: a sociohistorical exploration /
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"Walk in the Feenda" : West-Central Africans and the forest in the South Carolina-Georgia lowcountry /
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Liberated Central Africans in nineteenth-century Guyana /
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Combat and the crossing of the Kalunga /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-00278-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-80243-1
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511529108
