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The Resource Central Africans and cultural transformations in the American diaspora, edited by Linda M. Heywood, (electronic resource)

Central Africans and cultural transformations in the American diaspora, edited by Linda M. Heywood, (electronic resource)

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Summary
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.--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xv, 384 pages)
Contents
  • Who is the king of Congo? A new look at African and Afro-Brazilian Kings in Brazil
  • Elizabeth W. Kiddy
  • The great porpoise-skull strike: central African water spirits and slave identity in earl-nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro
  • Robert W. Slenes
  • Twins, Simbi spirits, and Lwas in Kongo and Haiti
  • Wyatt MacGaffey
  • The central African presence in Spanish maroon communities
  • Jane Landers
  • Central African popular Christianity and the making of Haitian vodou religion
  • Hein Vanhee
  • Central Africa during the era of the slave trade, c. 1490s-1850s
  • Kongolese Catholic influences on Haitian popular Catholicism: a sociohistorical exploration
  • Terry Rey
  • "Walk in the Feenda" : West-Central Africans and the forest in the South Carolina-Georgia lowcountry
  • Ras Michael Brown
  • Liberated Central Africans in nineteenth-century Guyana
  • Monica Schuler
  • Combat and the crossing of the Kalunga
  • T.J. Desch-Obi
  • Joseph C. Miller
  • Religious and ceremonial life in the Kongo and Mbundu Areas, 1500-1700
  • John K. Thornton
  • Portuguese into African: the eighteenth-century central African background to Atlantic Creole cultures
  • Linda M. Heywood
  • Central Africans in central Brazil, 1780-1835
  • Mary C. Karasch
Isbn
9780511529108
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511529108
Instance
Label
Central Africans and cultural transformations in the American diaspora
Title
Central Africans and cultural transformations in the American diaspora
Statement of responsibility
edited by Linda M. Heywood
Title variation
Central Africans & Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora
Contributor
Editor
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
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.--
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Provided by publisher
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Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
dictionaries
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
1945-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
Heywood, Linda M.
Series statement
Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Africans
  • Africans
  • Africans
  • African diaspora
  • Slave trade
  • Slavery
  • Africans
  • America
  • Africa, Central
Label
Central Africans and cultural transformations in the American diaspora, edited by Linda M. Heywood, (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511529108
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Publication
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Who is the king of Congo? A new look at African and Afro-Brazilian Kings in Brazil
  • Elizabeth W. Kiddy
  • The great porpoise-skull strike: central African water spirits and slave identity in earl-nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro
  • Robert W. Slenes
  • Twins, Simbi spirits, and Lwas in Kongo and Haiti
  • Wyatt MacGaffey
  • The central African presence in Spanish maroon communities
  • Jane Landers
  • Central African popular Christianity and the making of Haitian vodou religion
  • Hein Vanhee
  • Central Africa during the era of the slave trade, c. 1490s-1850s
  • Kongolese Catholic influences on Haitian popular Catholicism: a sociohistorical exploration
  • Terry Rey
  • "Walk in the Feenda" : West-Central Africans and the forest in the South Carolina-Georgia lowcountry
  • Ras Michael Brown
  • Liberated Central Africans in nineteenth-century Guyana
  • Monica Schuler
  • Combat and the crossing of the Kalunga
  • T.J. Desch-Obi
  • Joseph C. Miller
  • Religious and ceremonial life in the Kongo and Mbundu Areas, 1500-1700
  • John K. Thornton
  • Portuguese into African: the eighteenth-century central African background to Atlantic Creole cultures
  • Linda M. Heywood
  • Central Africans in central Brazil, 1780-1835
  • Mary C. Karasch
Control code
CR9780511529108
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xv, 384 pages)
Form of item
online
Governing access note
Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
Isbn
9780511529108
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
digital, PDF file(s).
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)708567535
Label
Central Africans and cultural transformations in the American diaspora, edited by Linda M. Heywood, (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511529108
Publication
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Who is the king of Congo? A new look at African and Afro-Brazilian Kings in Brazil
  • Elizabeth W. Kiddy
  • The great porpoise-skull strike: central African water spirits and slave identity in earl-nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro
  • Robert W. Slenes
  • Twins, Simbi spirits, and Lwas in Kongo and Haiti
  • Wyatt MacGaffey
  • The central African presence in Spanish maroon communities
  • Jane Landers
  • Central African popular Christianity and the making of Haitian vodou religion
  • Hein Vanhee
  • Central Africa during the era of the slave trade, c. 1490s-1850s
  • Kongolese Catholic influences on Haitian popular Catholicism: a sociohistorical exploration
  • Terry Rey
  • "Walk in the Feenda" : West-Central Africans and the forest in the South Carolina-Georgia lowcountry
  • Ras Michael Brown
  • Liberated Central Africans in nineteenth-century Guyana
  • Monica Schuler
  • Combat and the crossing of the Kalunga
  • T.J. Desch-Obi
  • Joseph C. Miller
  • Religious and ceremonial life in the Kongo and Mbundu Areas, 1500-1700
  • John K. Thornton
  • Portuguese into African: the eighteenth-century central African background to Atlantic Creole cultures
  • Linda M. Heywood
  • Central Africans in central Brazil, 1780-1835
  • Mary C. Karasch
Control code
CR9780511529108
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xv, 384 pages)
Form of item
online
Governing access note
Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
Isbn
9780511529108
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
digital, PDF file(s).
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)708567535

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