Materialities of Ritual in the Black Atlantic (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Ogundiran, Akinwumi; Saunders, Paula

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on everyday rituals, the essays in this volume look at spheres of social action and the places throughout the Atlantic world where African-descended communities have expressed their values, ideas, beliefs, and spirituality in material terms. The contributors trace the impact of encounters with the Atlantic world on African cultural formation, how entanglement with commerce, commodification, and enslavement and with colonialism, emancipation, and self-rule manifested itself in the shaping of ritual acts such as those associated with birth, death, healing, and protection. Taken as a whole, the book offers new perspectives on what the materials of rituals can tell us about the intimate processes of cultural transformation and the dynamics of the human condition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253013910
• Artikelnr.: 42934974

Autorenporträt

Edited by Akinwumi Ogundiran and Paula Saunders

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. On the Materiality of Black Atlantic Rituals / Akinwumi Ogundiran and
Paula Saunders
2. Reconstructing the Archaeology of Movement in Northern Ghana: Insights
into Past Ritual Posture and Performance / Timothy Insoll and Benjamin W.
Kankpeyeng
3. Sacred Vorticies of the African Atlantic World: Materiality of the
Accumulative Aesthetic in the Hueda Kingdom, 1650-1727 / Neil Norman
4. Cowries and Rituals of Self-Realization in the Yoruba Region, West
Africa, ca. 1600-1860 / Akinwumi Ogundiran
5. Spiritual Vibrations of Historic Kormantse and the Search for African
Identity Diaspora Identity and Freedom / E. Kofi Agorsah
6. Rituals of Iron in the Black Atlantic World / Candice Goucher
7. Transatlantic Meanings: African Rituals and Material Culture from the
Early Modern Spanish Caribbean / Pablo F. Gómez
8. "Instruments of Obeah": The Significance of Ritual Objects in the
Jamaican Legal System, 1760 to Present / Danielle Boaz
9. Charms and Spiritual Practitioners: Negotiating Power Dynamics in an
Enslaved African Community in Jamaica / Paula Saunders
10. Mundane or Spiritual? - The Interpretation of Glass Bottle Containers
Found on Two Sites of the African Diaspora / Matthew Reeves
11. Ritual Bundle in Colonial Annapolis / Mark P. Leone, Jocelyn E. Knauf
and Amanda Tang
12. Dexterous Creation: Material Manifestations of Instrumental Symbolism
in the Americas / Christopher C. Fennell
13. Ritualized Figuration in Special African-American Yards / Grey Gundaker
14. "I Cry 'I Am' For All to Hear Me": The Informal Cemetery in Central
Georgia / Hugh B. Matternes and Staci Richey
15. Spatial and Material Transformations in Commemoration on St. John, U.S.
Virgin Islands / Helen C. Blouet
16. "As Above, So Below": Ritual and Commemoration in African-American
Archaeological Contexts in the Northern United States / Cheryl J. LaRoche
17. Cape Coast Castle and Rituals of Memory / Brempong Osei-Tutu
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index