Central Africans and cultural transformations in the American diaspora /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Heywood, Linda M. (Linda Marinda), 1945-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Subjects:	Africans > America > History. Africans > America > Cultural assimilation. Africans > America > Ethnic identity. America > Civilization > African influences. Africa, Central > Civilization. African diaspora. Slave trade > Social aspects > History. Slavery > Social aspects > History. Africans > Migrations.

Table of Contents:

Central Africa during the era of the slave trade, c. 1490s-1850s / Joseph C. Miller
Religious and ceremonial life in the Kongo and Mbundu Areas, 1500-1700 / John K. Thornton
Portuguese into African: the eighteenth-century central African background to Atlantic Creole cultures / Linda M. Heywood
Central Africans in central Brazil, 1780-1835 / Mary C. Karasch
Who is the king of Congo? A new look at African and Afro-Brazilian Kings in Brazil / Elizabeth W. Kiddy
The great porpoise-skull strike: central African water spirits and slave identity in earl-nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro / Robert W. Slenes
Twins, Simbi spirits, and Lwas in Kongo and Haiti / Wyatt MacGaffey
The central African presence in Spanish maroon communities / Jane Landers
Central African popular Christianity and the making of Haitian vodou religion / Hein Vanhee
Kongolese Catholic influences on Haitian popular Catholicism: a sociohistorical exploration / Terry Rey
"Walk in the Feenda" : West-Central Africans and the forest in the South Carolina-Georgia lowcountry / Ras Michael Brown
Liberated Central Africans in nineteenth-century Guyana / Monica Schuler
Combat and the crossing of the Kalunga / T.J. Desch-Obi.