Africas of the Americas
Beyond the Search for Origins in the Study of Afro-Atlantic Religions
Series: Studies of Religion in Africa; 33;
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 19 May 2008
- ISBN 9789004164727
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages394 pages
- Size 240x160 mm
- Weight 777 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Until recently, African Americanist scholarship has been dominated by programmatic searches for African origins. This book aims to transcend this research agenda by exploring the ritual and discursive production and reproduction of conceptions of Africa and Africanity in the Americas.
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The anthropology and history of African American religious formations has long been dominated by approaches aiming to recover and authenticate the historical transatlantic continuities linking such traditions to identifiable African source cultures. While not denying such continuities, the contributors to this volume seek to transcend this research agenda by bracketing “Africa” and “African pasts” as objective givens, and asking instead what role notions of “Africanity” and “pastfulness” play in the social and ritual lives of historical and contemporary practitioners of Afro-Atlantic religious formations. The volume’s goal is to open up contextually salient claims to “African origins” to empirical scrutiny, and so contribute to a broadening of the terms of debate in Afro-Atlantic studies.
" ... the value of this book is at least two-fold.: It is at once a counterparadigm to traditional Afro-Americanist religious studies and a subtle but sharp critique of what Vassos Argyrou has called the “ethnological predicament” (2002: 2), that in having traditionally placed themselves as the arbitrors of ‘difference’, anthropologists have implicitly claimed for
themselves an ahistorical observer’s perspective they clearly do not occupy, in either ideological or practical terms."
Diana Espirito Santo, Institute de Ciencias Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa. (Religion and Society: Advances in Research, 2010)
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Until recently, African Americanist scholarship has been dominated by programmatic searches for African origins. This book aims to transcend this research agenda by exploring the ritual and discursive production and reproduction of conceptions of Africa and Africanity in the Americas.
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