Black Atlantic Religion : : Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé / / J. Lorand Matory.
Black Atlantic Religion illuminates the mutual transformation of African and African-American cultures, highlighting the example of the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé religion. This book contests both the recent conviction that transnationalism is new and the long-held supposition that African culture end...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) :; 17 halftones. 2 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- Chapter One. The English Professors of Brazil On the Diasporic Roots of the Yorùbá Nation
- Chapter Two. The Trans-Atlantic Nation Rethinking Nations and Transnationalism
- Chapter Three. Purity and Transnationalism On the Transformation of Ritual in the Yorùbá-Atlantic Diaspora
- Chapter Four. Candomblé's Newest Nation: Brazil
- Chapter Five. Para Inglês Ver Sex, Secrecy, and Scholarship in the Yorùbá-Atlantic World
- Chapter Six. Man in the "City of Women"
- Chapter Seven. Conclusion. The Afro-Atlantic Dialogue
- Appendix A. Geechees and Gullahs The Locus Classicus of African "Survivals" in the United States
- Appendix B. The Origins of the Term "Jeje"
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index