Central Africans and cultural transformations in the American diaspora
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Cambridge ; New York :
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2002.
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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.