Shackled Sentiments: Slaves, Spirits, and Memories in the African Diaspora

Eric J. Montgomery

doi:10.5771/9781498585996

Summary

The ramifications of the trans-Saharan, trans-Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and domestic African slave trades are immeasurable, and they continue to disaffect black people from Africa to Haiti and Los Angeles to Lagos. Shackled Sentiments focuses on the memories and embodiments of slavery through case studies from western, eastern, and central Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. The contributors to this collection examine the ways that memories of slavery have been internalized. Slavery and memory are assessed from multiple perspectives: as sets of ritual practices, community-based systems of spirit veneration, mechanisms of resistance and national pride, sacred languages informing personhood, and instruments for healing and well-being. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, history, religion, art, and linguistics.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2019
Copyright Year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-8598-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-8599-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 218
Product Type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Map No access
4. Introduction No access
1. Ch01. American Women Anthropologists of the Twentieth Century on Haitian Vodou No access
2. Ch02. Vodou as the Embryo and Marker of Haitian Sociohistorical Identity No access
3. Ch03. Remembering Our Mothers No access
1. Ch04. The Past Is Present No access
2. Ch05. Devotees and Clients No access
3. Ch06. Living with the Ghosts of Slavery in Western Eweland No access
1. Ch07. The Swahili Coast No access
2. Ch08. Slavery and Its Discontents No access
3. Ch09. The Language of the Slave Spirits in Brazilian Umbanda No access
Shackled Sentiments No access Pages 195 - 206
Index No access Pages 207 - 214
About the Contributors No access Pages 215 - 218