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  • Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas

    Edición de Benjamin Hebblethwaite, Silke Jansen ...
    Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas explores spirit-based religious traditions across vast geographical and cultural expanses, including Canada, the United States, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Brazil, and Chile. Using interdisciplinary research methods, this collection of original perspectives breaks new ground by examining these ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Vodou in the Haitian Experience

    A Black Atlantic Perspective

    de Patrick Delices, Patricia Marie-Emmanuelle Donatien, Charlotte Hammond, Benjamin Hebblethwaite, Tammie Jenkins, Barbara Lewis, Ann E. Mazzocca, Bronwyn Mills, Mambo Vye Zo Komande LaMenfo DaGinen (Patricia D. Scheu), Kantara Souffrant, Michel Weber ...
    One glaring lacuna in studies of Haitian Vodou is the scarcity of works exploring the connection between the religion and its main roots, traditional Yoruba religion. Discussions of Vodou very often seem to present the religion in vacuo, as a sui generis phenomenon that arose in Saint-Domingue and evolved in Haiti, with no antecedents. What is sorely needed then is more comparative studies of ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD

  • A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou

    Rasin Figuier, Rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites

    de Benjamin Hebblethwaite ...
    Connecting four centuries of political, social, and religious history with fieldwork and language documentation, A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou analyzes Haitian Vodou’s African origins, transmission to Saint-Domingue, and promulgation through song in contemporary Haiti.Split into two sections, the African chapters focus on history, economics, and culture in Dahomey, Allada, and Hueda ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

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  • Flash of the Spirit

    African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy

    de Robert Farris Thompson ...
    This landmark book shows how five African civilizations—Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River—have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil and other places in the New World. ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Santeria

    African Spirits in America

    de Joseph M. Murphy ...
    Santería represents the first in-depth, scholarly account of a profound way of wisdom that is growing in importance in America today. A professional academic and himself a participant in the Santeríacommunity of the Bronx for several years, Joseph Murphy offers a powerful description and insightful analysis of this African/Cuban religion. He traces the survival of an ancient spiritual path from ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Ifá Divination, Knowledge, Power, and Performance

    de Jacob K. Olupona, Rowland O. Abiodun, Adélékè Adéèkó, Akintunde Akinyemi, Andrew Apter, Barry Hallen, Bolaji Campbell, Henry John Drewal, Ifaboyede McElwaine Abimbola0, Akinwumi Isola1, John Mason2, Joseph M. Murray3, Kamari M. Clarke4, Laura S. Grillo5, Mei-Mei Sanford6, Olúfémi Táíwò7, J.A. Opefeyitimi8, Olasope O. Oyelaran9, Philip M. Peek0, Stefania Capone1, Wyatt MacGaffey2, Ysamur M. Flores-Peña3 ...
    This landmark volume compiled by Jacob K. Olupona and Rowland O. Abiodun brings readers into the diverse world of Ifá—its discourse, ways of thinking, and artistic expression as manifested throughout the Afro-Atlantic. Firmly rooting Ifá within African religious traditions, the essays consider Ifá and Ifá divination from the perspectives of philosophy, performance studies, and cultural studies. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • In Darkness and Secrecy

    The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia

    de Johannes Wilbert, Silvia M. Vidal ...
    In Darkness and Secrecy brings together ethnographic examinations of Amazonian assault sorcery, witchcraft, and injurious magic, or “dark shamanism.” Anthropological reflections on South American shamanism have tended to emphasize shamans’ healing powers and positive influence. This collection challenges that assumption by showing that dark shamans are, in many Amazonian cultures, quite different ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Social Life of Spirits

    Edición de Ruy Blanes, Diana Espírito Santo ...
    Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else—symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way works of art do. The Social Life of Spirits challenges this notion. By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Africa's Ogun

    Old World and New

    Edición de Sandra T. Barnes ...
    This landmark work of ethnography explores the enduring, global worship of the African god of war—with five new essays in this new, expanded edition.Ogun—the ancient African god of iron, war, and hunting—is worshiped by more than forty million adherents in Western Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas. This rich, interdisciplinary collection draws on field research from several continents to ... Leer más

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  • Shamans of the Foye Tree

    Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche

    de Ana Mariella Bacigalupo ...
    Drawing on anthropologist Ana Mariella Bacigalupo's fifteen years of field research, Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche is the first study to follow shamans' gender identities and performance in a variety of ritual, social, sexual, and political contexts.To Mapuche shamans, or machi, the foye tree is of special importance, not only for its medicinal ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Living Santería

    Rituals and Experiences in an Afro-Cuban Religion

    de Michael Atwood Mason ...
    In 1992 Smithsonian anthropologist Michael Atwood Mason traveled to Cuba for initiation as a priest into the Santería religion. Since then he has created an active oricha “house” and has initiated five others as priests. He is a rare combination: a scholar-practitioner who is equally fluent in his profession and his religion. Interweaving his roles as researcher and priest, Mason explores Santería ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Essays

    de Rudolfo Anaya ...
    Fifty-two essays exploring identity, literature, immigration, and politics by the American Book Award winner, one of the godfathers of Chicano literature.Best known for his novel Bless Me, Ultima, which established him as one of the founders of Chicano literature, Rudolfo Anaya displays his gift for storytelling and deep connection to the land and its history in The Essays. These intimate and ... Leer más

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