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Autore |
Falola Toyin |
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Titolo |
Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World [[electronic resource]] |
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-23828-0 |
9786612238284 |
0-253-00301-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (470 p.) |
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Collana |
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Blacks in the diaspora The Yoruba diaspora in the Atlantic world |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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970.00496333 |
970/.00496333 |
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Soggetti |
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African diaspora |
Return migration -- Africa, West |
Slavery -- America -- History |
Yoruba (African people) -- America -- History |
Yoruba (African people) - History - America |
Slavery - History - America |
Return migration - Africa, West |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World: Methodology and Research""; ""I. The Yoruba Homeland and Diaspora""; ""2. The Diaspora of Yoruba Speakers, 1650-1865: Dimensions and Implications""; ""3. The Yoruba Factor in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade""; ""4. The Enslavement of Yoruba""; ""II. The Yoruba Diaspora in the Americas""; ""5. Naga and Mina: The Yoruba Diaspora in Brazil""; ""6. The Yoruba in Cuba: Origins, Identities, and Transformations""; ""7. Africans in a Colony of Creoles: The Yoruba in Colonial Costa Rica"" |
""8. Yoruba in the British Caribbean: A Comparative Perspective on Trinidad and the Bahamas""""9. The Influential Yoruba Past in Haiti""; ""III. The Cultural Foundations of the Yoruba Diaspora""; ""10. The |
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Nagoization Process in Bahian Candombla""; ""11. Santera in Cuba: Tradition and Transformation""; ""12. From Gbe to Yoruba: Ethnic Change and the Mina Nation in Rio de Janeiro""; ""13. Yoruba Family, Gender, and Kinship Roles in New World Slavery""; ""14. Revolution and Religion: Yoruba Sacred Music in Socialist Cuba"" |
""15. Reclaiming the Past: Yoruba Elements in African American Arts""""16. Yorubaisms in African American Speech Patterns""; ""IV. The Return to Yorubaland""; ""17. Yoruba Liberated Slaves Who Returned to West Africa""; ""18. The Yoruba Diaspora in Sierra Leone's Krio Society""; ""19. Liberated Slaves and Islam in Nineteenth-Century West Africa""; ""Bibliography""; ""Contributors""; ""Index"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This innovative anthology focuses on the enslavement, middle passage, American experience, and return to Africa of a single cultural group, the Yoruba. Moving beyond descriptions of generic African experiences, this anthology will allow students to trace the experiences of one cultural group throughout the cycle of the slave experience in the Americas. The 19 essays, employing a variety of disciplinary perspectives, provide a detailed study of how the Yoruba were integrated into the Atlantic world through |
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