Materialities of Ritual in the Black Atlantic

Focusing on everyday rituals, the essays in this volume look at spheres of social action and the...
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Author: Akinwumi Ogundiran
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Language: English
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Materialities of Ritual in the Black Atlantic by Ogundiran, Akinwumi

Materialities of Ritual in the Black Atlantic

€112,36

Materialities of Ritual in the Black Atlantic

€112,36
Author: Akinwumi Ogundiran
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.



Author: Akinwumi Ogundiran
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Published: 10/01/2014
Pages: 410
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.67lbs
Size: 9.70h x 5.89w x 1.42d
ISBN: 9780253013866


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2014 pg. 99
Choice 11/01/2015

About the Author

Akinwumi Ogundiran is Professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology, and History and Chair of the Africana Studies Department at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is editor (with Toyin Falola) of Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora (IUP, 2007).

Paula Saunders is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York.


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