Africas of the Americas : beyond the search for origins in the study of Afro-Atlantic religions / / edited by Stephan Palmié |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (396 p.) |
Disciplina | 299.6097 |
Altri autori (Persone) | PalmiéStephan |
Collana | Studies of religion in Africa : supplements to the journal of religions in Africa |
Soggetto topico | Afro-Caribbean religions |
ISBN |
1-283-06064-7
9786613060648 90-474-3270-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: On predications of Africanity / Stephan Palmié -- On leaving and joining Africanness through religion : the 'Black Caribs' across multiple diasporic horizons / Paul Christopher Johnson -- From Igbo Israeli to African Christian : the emergence of racial identity in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting narrative / James Sidbury -- Governing man-gods : spiritism and the struggle for progress in Republican Cuba / Reinaldo L. Román -- Divining the past : the linguistic reconstruction of 'African' roots in diasporic ritual registers and songs / Kristina Wirtz -- Ecué's Atlantic : an essay in methodology / Stephan Palmié -- Dona Preta's trek to Cachoeira / Brian Brazeal -- Transatlantic dialogue : Roger Bastide and the African American religions / Stefania Capone -- Peasants, migrants and the discovery of African traditions : ritual and social change in Lowland Haiti / Karen E. Richman -- African accents, speaking child spirits and the Brazilian popular imaginary : permutations of Africanness in Candomblé / Elina Hartikainen -- Free to be a slave : slavery as metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic religions / J. Lorand Matory. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817201303321 |
Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2008 | ||
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Queering Creole spiritual traditions : lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender participation in African-inspired traditions in the Americas / / Randy P. Conner with David Hatfield Sparks |
Autore | Conner Randy P. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (403 p.) |
Disciplina |
291.17835766
299.608664 |
Altri autori (Persone) | SparksDavid Hatfield |
Soggetto topico |
Homosexuality - Religious aspects
Afro-Caribbean religions |
ISBN |
1-56023-351-6
1-315-78387-8 1-317-71281-1 1-317-71282-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ch. 1. Sources -- ch. 2. Divinities and spirits -- ch. 3. Children of the spirits -- ch. 4. Snapshots -- ch. 5. To make the spirit manifest. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821619803321 |
Conner Randy P.
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Yemoja : gender, sexuality, and creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic diasporas / / edited by Solimar Otero and Toyin Falola |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany : , : SUNY Press, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina | 299.61211 |
Altri autori (Persone) | OteroSolimar |
Soggetto topico |
African diaspora in art
Afro-Caribbean religions Cultural fusion and the arts Goddesses in art Mother goddesses Orishas in art Sex in art Yemaja (Yoruba deity) |
ISBN |
1-4619-5138-0
1-4384-4801-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : "Introducing Yemoja" / Solimar Otero and Toyin Falola -- Yemoja, gender, and sexuality. Invocación/Invocation "En busca de un amante desempleado / Searching for an unemployed lover" / Pedro R. Pérez-Sarduy -- "Nobody's mammy" : Yemayá as fierce foremother in Afro-Cuban religions / Elizabeth Pérez -- Yemayá's duck : irony, ambivalence and the effeminate-male subject in Cuban santeria / Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús -- Yemayá y Ochún : queering the vernacular logics of the waters in Afro-Cuban religion / Solimar Otero -- A different kind of sweetness : Yemayá in Afro-Cuban religion / Martin Tsang -- Yemoja : divine mother and water goddess / Allison P. Sellers. Yemoja's aesthetics : creative expression in diaspora. "Yemaya blew that wire fence down" : invoking African spiritualities in Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La frontera : the new mestiza and the mural art of Juana Alicia / Micaela Díaz-Sánchez -- Dancing aché with Yemaya in my life and in my art : an artist statement / Arturo Lindsay -- What the water brings and takes away : the work of Maria Magdalena Campos Pons / Alan West-Durán -- "The sea never dies" : Yemoja, the mother-force flowing infinitely in Africana literature and cinema / Teresa N. Washington -- A sonic portrait with photos of Salvador's Iemanjá Festival / Jamie N. Davidson and Nelson Eubanks -- Yemaya offering a pearl of wisdom : an artist statement / Erin Dean Colcord. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824017903321 |
Albany : , : SUNY Press, , 2013 | ||
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