Description |
xv, 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Central Africa during the era of the slave trade, c. 1490s-1850s / Joseph C. Miller -- Religious and ceremonial life in the Kongo and Mbundu Areas, 1500-1700 / John K. Thornton -- Portuguese into African: the eighteenth-century central African background to Atlantic Creole cultures / Linda M. Heywood -- Central Africans in central Brazil, 1780-1835 / Mary C. Karasch -- Who is the king of Congo? A new look at African and Afro-Brazilian Kings in Brazil / Elizabeth W. Kiddy -- The great porpoise-skull strike: central African water spirits and slave identity in earl-nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro / Robert W. Slenes -- Twins, Simbi spirits, and Lwas in Kongo and Haiti / Wyatt MacGaffey -- The central African presence in Spanish maroon communities / Jane Landers -- Central African popular Christianity and the making of Haitian vodou religion / Hein Vanhee -- Kongolese Catholic influences on Haitian popular Catholicism: a sociohistorical exploration / Terry Rey -- "Walk in the Feenda" : West-Central Africans and the forest in the South Carolina-Georgia lowcountry / Ras Michael Brown -- Liberated Central Africans in nineteenth-century Guyana / Monica Schuler --Combat and the crossing of the Kalunga / T.J. Desch-Obi. |
Local Subject |
Trafficking in enslaved persons -- Social aspects -- History.
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Subject |
African diaspora.
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Africans -- America -- Cultural assimilation.
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Africans -- America -- History.
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America -- Civilization -- African influences.
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Africans -- Migrations.
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Africa, Central -- Civilization.
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Slave trade -- Social aspects -- History.
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Slavery -- Social aspects -- History.
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Africans -- America -- Ethnic identity.
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Added Author |
Heywood, Linda M. (Linda Marinda), 1945-
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ISBN |
0521802431 hardback |
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9780521802437 hardback |
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0521002788 paperback |
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9780521002783 paperback |
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