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Title: Diaspora Conversions
Condition: New
Subtitle: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa
Author: Paul Christopher Johnson
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0520249704
EAN: 9780520249707
ISBN: 9780520249707
Publisher: University of California Press
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Release Date: 03/09/2007
Description: By joining a diaspora, a society may begin to change its religious, ethnic, and even racial identifications by rethinking its "pasts." This pioneering multisite ethnography explores how this phenomenon is affecting the remarkable religion of the Garifuna, historically known as the Black Caribs, from the Central American coast of the Caribbean. It is estimated that one-third of the Garifuna have migrated to New York City over the past fifty years. Paul Christopher Johnson compares Garifuna spirit possession rituals performed in Honduran villages with those conducted in New York, and what emerges is a compelling picture of how the Garifuna engage ancestral spirits across multiple diasporic horizons. His study sheds new light on the ways diasporic religions around the world creatively plot itineraries of spatial memory that at once recover and remold their histories.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Width: 20mm
Item Weight: 454g
Release Year: 2007

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