Journal articleThe Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History · October 2015
Critical review of Pares's The Formation of Candomble. The ongoing interaction between African and African-diaspora populations explains much that is neglected in models of cultural "memory" and "forgetting." ...
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Journal articleThe Americas · October 2015
The Atlantic slave trade extracted kidnapped populations from the entirety of the western African coast between what are now Senegal and Angola, as well as parts of the east African coast in what is now Mozambique. Western slave traders and buyers ...
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Journal articleComparative Studies in Society and History · October 8, 2008
The Gullah/Geechee people are the locus classicus for the study of "African survivals" in North American culture. As such, they have been saddled with the duty to generate universal principles for the explanation of Africans' acculturation, adaptation, and ...
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Journal articleThe Guardian · February 5, 2008
Leading structuralist and Harvard anthropologist David Maybury-Lewis not only studied but also set the standard for culturally informed service and assistance to the indigenous peoples of lowland South America. ...
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Journal articleRevista de Antropologia: Revista de Antropologia da Universidade de São Paulo · 2008
US-based feminist anthropologist Ruth Landes introduced homophobic ideas into the Brazilian elite's understanding and treatment of male-loving priests of the Afro-Brazilian Candomble religion. This influence helps to explain the relatively recent numerical ...
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Journal articleGender & History · November 1, 2003
Whereas scholars have often described the material interests served by any given social group's selective narration of history, this article catches scholars in the act of selectively narrating Yorùbá-Atlantic cultural history in the service of their own f ...
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Journal articleTransforming Anthropology · July 2001
Anthropologists are now inescapably aware of conflict, contradiction, and negotiation in even the most seemingly "traditional" socio-cultural orders. The literature on "memory" is particularly rich in illustrations of how contradictory evocations of the pa ...
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Journal articleAmerican Anthropologist · March 1996
Revisiting the African Diaspora: Working the Spirit: Ceremonies of the African Diaspora. Joseph M. MurphyRevisiting the African Diaspora: Santería from Africa to the New World: The Dead Sell ...
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