Book section · 2014
About the changing analytic metaphors and other tropes that have informed research on African-diaspora cultural history. Each one highlights and hides dimensions of cultural change in the diaspora. ...
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Book section · March 31, 2009
This innovative collection examines the transnational movements, effects, and transformations of religion in the contemporary world, offering a fresh perspective on the interrelation between globalization and religion. Taken as a whole, Transnational Trans ...
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Book section · 2009
The spirit possession religions of West Africa and its American diaspora, like many religions, are inherently transnationalist in their conceptions of the person. ...
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Book section · September 30, 2008
In this investigation of America's most enduring African-inspired art form, the Lowcountry basket becomes a prism through which to explore 300 years of American and African history. ...
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Book section · 2008
Whereas most African Americans and most university scholars regard enslavement as a demeaning condition, many African or African-inspired religions represent slaves as powerful and social hierarchy as a normal condition of life. Indeed, Christianity and Is ...
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Book section · January 1, 2008
As the twenty-first century begins, tens of millions of people participate in devotions to the spirits called Òrìsà. This book explores the emergence of Òrìsà devotion as a world religion, one of the most remarkable and compelling developments in the histo ...
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Book section · 2006
The transnational influence of US feminist anthropologist Ruth Landes and Brazilian nationalist pride fueled homophobia in the treatment of male Candomble priests by the Brazilian state and bourgeoisie. The "cult matriarchy" identified by Ruth Landes in th ...
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Book section · 2006
For centuries, lifeways and political identities in Africa and in many parts of its American diaspora have been re-shaped by the back-and-forth exchange of people,books, musical recordings,and merchandise between Africa and the Americas, recommending that ...
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Book section · 2006
The transnational influence of US feminist anthropologist Ruth Landes and Brazilian nationalist pride fueled homophobia in the treatment of male Candomble priests by the Brazilian state and bourgeoisie. The "cult matriarchy" identified by Ruth Landes in th ...
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Book section · 1999
Africa is not to the black Americas as the past is to the present. Ongoing historical developments in Africa have continually influenced American cultural history, and, more surprisingly, ongoing historical developments in the Americas have continually in ...
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A reflection on the historic events of the past 22 years and of the past four years, appealing to the justice-minded activism of the graduating seniors. Also my farewell to Harvard. ...
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