Insignificant Things ? Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic
Amulets and the Art of Survival in the Early Black Atlantic
Series: The Visual Arts of Africa and its Diasporas;
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Product details:
- Publisher MD ? Duke University Press
- Date of Publication 10 October 2023
- Number of Volumes Cloth over boards
- ISBN 9781478017158
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages277 pages
- Size 238x158x25 mm
- Weight 520 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 78 illustrations 544
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Short description:
Matthew Francis Rarey traces the history of the amulet pouches that enslaved and other marginalized people carried as tools of survival in the Black Atlantic world and shows how they are examples of the visual culture of enslavement.
MoreLong description:
In Insignificant Things Matthew Francis Rarey traces the history of the African-associated amulets that enslaved and other marginalized people carried as tools of survival in the Black Atlantic world from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Often considered visually benign by white Europeans, these amulet pouches, commonly known as “mandingas,” were used across Africa, Brazil, and Portugal and contained myriad objects, from herbs and Islamic prayers to shells and coins. Drawing on Arabic-language narratives from the West African Sahel, the archives of the Portuguese Inquisition, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European travel and merchant accounts of the West African Coast, and early nineteenth-century Brazilian police records, Rarey shows how mandingas functioned as portable archives of their makers’ experiences of enslavement, displacement, and diaspora. He presents them as examples of the visual culture of enslavement and critical to conceptualizing Black Atlantic art history. Ultimately, Rarey looks to the archives of transatlantic slavery, which were meant to erase Black life, for objects like the mandingas that were created to protect it.
"In short, Rarey has produced an important contribution to the discussion of the religious life of Africans at home and in the Diaspora. It is a book full of insights into both the religious culture of the Inquisition as well as that of the makers and users of the bolsas. Rarey’s attention to detail and the force of his reasoning about it is sure to be a starting point for further investigations."
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