Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora

Name: Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora
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ISBN: 9780521002783

ISBN-10: 0521002788

ISBN-13: 9780521002783

Edition: 2002

Authors: Linda M. Heywood

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This is a study of African culture and the forces that led to its transformation during the period of the Atlantic slave trade, illustrating how African peoples re-shaped their cultural institutions, beliefs and practices.

Book details

List price: $52.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/19/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 404
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



List of Contributors


Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Central Africa: Society, Culture, and the Slave Trade



Central Africa During the Era of the Slave Trade, c. 1490s-1850s




Religious and Ceremonial Life in the Kongo and Mbundu Areas, 1500-1700




Portuguese into African: The Eighteenth-Century Central African Background to Atlantic Creole Cultures




Central Africans in Brazil



Central Africans in Central Brazil, 1780-1835




Who Is the King of Congo? A New Look at African and Afro-Brazilian Kings in Brazil




The Great Porpoise-Skull Strike: Central African Water Spirits and Slave Identity in Early-Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro




Central Africans in Haiti and Spanish America



Twins, Simbi Spirits, and Lwas in Kongo and Haiti




The Central African Presence in Spanish Maroon Communities




Central African Popular Christianity and the Making of Haitian Vodou Religion




Kongolese Catholic Influences on Haitian Popular Catholicism: A Sociohistorical Exploration




Central Africans in North America and the Caribbean



"Walk in the Feenda": West-Central Africans and the Forest in the South Carolina--Georgia Lowcountry




Liberated Central Africans in Nineteenth-Century Guyana




Combat and the Crossing of the Kalunga



Index