Materialities of ritual in the Black Atlantic / edited by Akinwumi Ogundiran and Paula Saunders. - 1 online resource (page cm.) - Blacks in the diaspora . - Blacks in the diaspora. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On the materiality of Black Atlantic rituals / Reconstructing the archaeology of movement in northern Ghana : insights into past ritual posture and performance / Sacred vortices of the African Atlantic world : materiality of the accumulative aesthetic in the Hueda kingdom, 1650 / Cowries and rituals of self-realization in the Yoruba region, West Africa, ca. 1600 / Spiritual vibrations of historic Kormantse and the search for African diaspora identity and freedom / Rituals of iron in the Black Atlantic world / Transatlantic meanings : African rituals and material culture in the early modern Spanish Caribbean / "Instruments of obeah" : the significance of ritual objects in the Jamaican legal system, 1760 to the present / Charms and spiritual practitioners : negotiating power dynamics in an enslaved African community in Jamaica / Mundane or spiritual? the interpretation of glass bottle containers found on two sites of the African diaspora / Ritual bundle in colonial Annapolis / Dexterous creation : material manifestations of instrumental symbolism in the Americas / Ritualized figuration in special African American yards / "I cry 'I am' for all to hear me" : the informal cemetery in central Georgia / Spatial and material transformations in commemoration on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands / "As above, so below" : ritual and commemoration in African American archaeological contexts in the northern United States / Cape Coast Castle and rituals of memory / Akinwumi Ogundiran and Paula Saunders -- Timothy Insoll and Benjamin W. Kankpeyeng -- Neil L. Norman -- Akinwumi Ogundiran -- E. Kofi Agorsah -- Candice Goucher -- Pablo F. Gomez -- Danielle Boaz -- Paula Saunders -- Matthew Reeves -- Mark P. Leone, Jocelyn E. Knauf and Amanda Tang -- Christopher C. Fennell -- Grey Gundaker -- Hugh B. Matternes and Staci Richey -- Helen C. Blouet -- Cheryl J. LaRoche -- Brempong Osei-Tutu.

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African diaspora.
Blacks--Material culture--Atlantic Ocean Region.
Blacks--Material culture--Caribbean Area.
African Americans--Material culture.
Material culture--Atlantic Ocean Region.
Material culture--Caribbean Area.
Material culture--United States.
Ritual--Atlantic Ocean Region.
Ritual--Caribbean Area.
Ritual--United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture


Electronic books.

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