Materialities of ritual in the Black Atlantic /edited by Akinwumi Ogundiran and Paula Saunders.
Materialities of ritual in the Black Atlantic /edited by Akinwumi Ogundiran and Paula Saunders.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 404 pages)
- Blacks in the diaspora .
Includes bibliographies 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, circa 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.
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.
9780253013910
African diaspora.
Black people--Material culture--Atlantic Ocean Region.
Black people--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.
Electronic Books.
DT16 / .M384 2014
Includes bibliographies 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, circa 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.
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.
9780253013910
African diaspora.
Black people--Material culture--Atlantic Ocean Region.
Black people--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.
Electronic Books.
DT16 / .M384 2014