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Materialities of Ritual in the Black Atlantic.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Blacks in the Diaspora SeriesPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (419 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253013910
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Materialities of Ritual in the Black AtlanticDDC classification:
  • 306.45096
LOC classification:
  • DT16.5 -- .M37 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. On the Materiality of Black Atlantic Rituals -- 2. Reconstructing the Archaeology of Movement in Northern Ghana: Insights into Past Ritual Posture and Performance -- 3. Sacred Vortices of the African Atlantic World: Materiality of the Accumulative Aesthetic in the Hueda Kingdom, 1650-1727 CE -- 4. Cowries and Rituals of Self-Realization in the Yoruba Region, ca. 1600-1860 -- 5. Spiritual Vibrations of Historic Kormantse and the Search for African Diaspora Identity and Freedom -- 6. Rituals of Iron in the Black Atlantic World -- 7. Transatlantic Meanings: African Rituals and Material Culture in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean -- 8. "Instruments of Obeah": The Significance of Ritual Objects in the Jamaican Legal System, 1760 to the Present -- 9. Charms and Spiritual Practitioners: Negotiating Power Dynamics in an Enslaved African Community in Jamaica -- 10. Mundane or Spiritual? The Interpretation of Glass Bottle Containers Found on Two Sites of the African Diaspora -- 11. Ritual Bundle in Colonial Annapolis -- 12. Dexterous Creation: Material Manifestations of Instrumental Symbolism in the Americas -- 13. Ritualized Figuration in Special African American Yards -- 14. "I Cry 'I Am' for All to Hear Me": The Informal Cemetery in Central Georgia -- 15. Spatial and Material Transformations in Commemoration on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands -- 16. "As Above, So Below": Ritual and Commemoration in African American Archaeological Contexts in the Northern United States -- 17. Cape Coast Castle and Rituals of Memory -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: 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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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. On the Materiality of Black Atlantic Rituals -- 2. Reconstructing the Archaeology of Movement in Northern Ghana: Insights into Past Ritual Posture and Performance -- 3. Sacred Vortices of the African Atlantic World: Materiality of the Accumulative Aesthetic in the Hueda Kingdom, 1650-1727 CE -- 4. Cowries and Rituals of Self-Realization in the Yoruba Region, ca. 1600-1860 -- 5. Spiritual Vibrations of Historic Kormantse and the Search for African Diaspora Identity and Freedom -- 6. Rituals of Iron in the Black Atlantic World -- 7. Transatlantic Meanings: African Rituals and Material Culture in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean -- 8. "Instruments of Obeah": The Significance of Ritual Objects in the Jamaican Legal System, 1760 to the Present -- 9. Charms and Spiritual Practitioners: Negotiating Power Dynamics in an Enslaved African Community in Jamaica -- 10. Mundane or Spiritual? The Interpretation of Glass Bottle Containers Found on Two Sites of the African Diaspora -- 11. Ritual Bundle in Colonial Annapolis -- 12. Dexterous Creation: Material Manifestations of Instrumental Symbolism in the Americas -- 13. Ritualized Figuration in Special African American Yards -- 14. "I Cry 'I Am' for All to Hear Me": The Informal Cemetery in Central Georgia -- 15. Spatial and Material Transformations in Commemoration on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands -- 16. "As Above, So Below": Ritual and Commemoration in African American Archaeological Contexts in the Northern United States -- 17. Cape Coast Castle and Rituals of Memory -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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