Africas of the Americas: Beyond the Search for Origins in the Study of Afro-Atlantic Religions

408 Pages·2008·7.457 MB·English

by  Stephan Palmié

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Africas of the Americas
Studies of Religion in Africa
Supplements to the Journal of
Religion in Africa
Edited by
Paul Gifford
School of Oriental and African Studies, London
VOLUME 33
Africas of the Americas
Beyond the Search for Origins in the Study of
Afro-Atlantic Religions
Edited by
Stephan Palmié
LEIDEN + BOSTON
2008
Cover Photograph by Bnan Brazeal
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Africas of the Americas : beyond the search for origins in the study of Afro-Atlantic
religions / edited by Stephan Palmié.
p. cm. — (Studies of religion in Africa, ISSN 0169-9814 ; v. 33)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-90-04-16472-7 (hardback : alk. paper)
1. Afro-Caribbean cults. 2. Africa—Religion. 3. Caribbean Area—Religion.
I. Palmié, Stephan. II. Title. III. Series.
BL2565.A36 2008
299.6097—dc22
2008008544
ISSN 0169-9814
ISBN 978 90 04 16472 7
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CONTENTS
Introduction: On Predications of Afficanity ..ccccnnnnnccnnnononannnnnns» l
Stephan Palmié
On Leaving and Joining Africanness T'hrough Religion:
The ‘Black Caribs’ Across Multiple Diasporic Horizons ...... 39
Paul Christopher Johnson
From Igbo Israeli to African Christian: The Emergence of
Racial Identity in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narratiwe ...... 79
James Sidbury
Governing Man-Gods: Spiritism and the Struggle for
Progress in Republican Cuba ....onoccccnonccncnonncnnnonananncnanananonononos 107
Reinaldo L. Román
Divining the Past: The Linguistic Reconstruction of ‘African’
Roots in Diasporic Ritual Registers and Songs ............::ceee 141
Kristina Wirtz
Ecué's Atlantic: An Essay in Methodology ......cccccccnnoconnnncnnnnnanns» 179
Stephan Palmié
Dona Preta’s Trek to Gachoeira ....ocoocnccccncnncncnncnononononacarononcnonoss 223
Brian Brazeal
Transatlantic Dialogue: Roger Bastide and the African
American Religions ........oonoccnnnnnonnnonnnnnannnonanancncnnnnnncnnnonccnnnnnos 299
Stefania Capone
Peasants, Migrants and the Discovery of African Traditions:
Ritual and Social Change in Lowland Haltl ....ooonomonccnnnncnonno» 293
Karen E. Richman
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African Accents, Speaking Child Spirits and the Brazilian
Popular Imaginary: Permutations of Africanness in
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Elina Hartikainen
Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic
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J. Lorand Matory