Diaspora Conversions Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa

Name: Diaspora Conversions Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa
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ISBN: 9780520249707

ISBN-10: 0520249704

ISBN-13: 9780520249707

Edition: 2007

Authors: Paul Christopher Johnson

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By joining a diaspora, a society may begin to change its religious, ethnic, and even racial identifications by rethinking its "pasts." This pioneering, multi-site ethnography explores how this phenomenon is affecting the remarkable religion of the Garifuna, historically known as the Black Caribs, of the Central American coast of the Caribbean. It is estimated that one-third of the Garifuna, an ethnic group of mixed African and Amerindian geneology, have migrated to New York City over the past fifty years. Paul Christopher Johnson compares Garifuna spirit possession rituals performed in Honduran villages with those conducted in New York, and what emerges is a compelling picture of how the…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/3/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 343
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Paul Christopher Johnson is professor of history and Afroamerican and African studies and director of the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of Secrets, Gossip, and Gods: The Transformation of Brazilian Candomblï¿½ and Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



What Is Diasporic Religion?



"These Sons of Freedom": Black Caribs Licross Three Diasporic Horizons



Shamans at Work in the Villages



Shamans at Work in New York



Ritual in the Homeland; Or, Making the Land "Home" in Ritual



Ritual in the Bronx



Finding Africa in New York


Conclusion



Trajectory of a Moving Object, the Caldero


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index