Crossroads and cosmologies : diasporas and ethnogenesis in the new world /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
[2007]
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| Series: | Cultural heritage studies.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Diasporas, histories, and heritage
- From the diminutive to the transatlantic
- Shared meanings and culture dynamics
- Core symbols across a continuum
- A core symbol of the BaKongo culture
- Marking social group contours
- Expressions of group identity and individual purpose
- A model for diaspora analysis
- Interpreting cultural expressions through ethnohistorical analogy
- BaKongo culture in West Central Africa
- Predicting facets of symbolic expression in new settings
- African diasporas and symbolism in the New World
- Private rituals in North America
- Yoruba and BaKongo dynamics in Cuba
- Innovation of new emblems in Haiti and Brazil
- Afro-Christian dynamics in North America
- European diasporas and the persistence of magic
- From the Palatinate to Virginia
- Hexerei practices among German-Americans
- Social networks and interpersonal conflicts
- Expressions instrumental and emblematic
- Creolization, hybridity, and ethnogenic bricolage.