Insignificant things : amulets and the art of survival in the early Black Atlantic /

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 European...

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Main Author: Rarey, Matthew Francis (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, 2023.
Series:Visual arts of Africa and its diasporas.
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