Black Atlantic Religion Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblï¿½

Name: Black Atlantic Religion Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblï¿½
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ISBN: 9780691059440

ISBN-10: 0691059446

ISBN-13: 9780691059440

Edition: 2005

Authors: J. Lorand Matory

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Black Atlantic Religionilluminates the mutual transformation of African and African-American cultures, highlighting the example of the Afro-Brazilian Candombleacute; religion. This book contests both the recent conviction that transnationalism is new and the long-held supposition that African culture endures in the Americas only among the poorest and most isolated of black populations. In fact, African culture in the Americas has most flourished among the urban and the prosperous, who, through travel, commerce, and literacy, were well exposed to other cultures. Their embrace of African religion is less a "survival," or inert residue of the African past, than a strategic choice in their…

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List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 7/25/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 7.36" wide x 11.22" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Introduction



The English Professors of Brazil On the Diasporic Roots of the Yoruba Nation



The Trans-Atlantic Nation Rethinking Nations and Transnationalism



Purity and Transnationalism On the Transformation of Ritual in the Yoruba-Atlantic Diaspora



Candomble's Newest Nation: Brazil



Para Ingles Ver Sex, Secrecy, and Scholarship in the Yoruba-Atlantic World



Man in the "City of Women"



Conclusion: The Afro-Atlantic Dialogue



Geechees and Gullahs The Locus Classicus of African "Survivals" in the United States



The Origins of the Term "Jeje"


Notes


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