Africas of the Americas

Beyond the Search for Origins in the Study of Afro-Atlantic Religions
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-16472-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 394 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 780 g

Reihe: Studies of Religion in Africa

The anthropology and history of African American religious formations has long been dominated by approaches aiming to recover and authenticate the historical transatlantic continuities linking such traditions to identifiable African source cultures. While not denying such continuities, the contributors to this volume seek to transcend this research agenda by bracketing “Africa” and “African pasts” as objective givens, and asking instead what role notions of “Africanity” and “pastfulness” play in the social and ritual lives of historical and contemporary practitioners of Afro-Atlantic religious formations. The volume’s goal is to open up contextually salient claims to “African origins” to empirical scrutiny, and so contribute to a broadening of the terms of debate in Afro-Atlantic studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Palmié, Stephan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Über Autor(innen)

Stephan Palmié, Ph.D. (University of Munich, 1989) is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Das Exil der Götter (1991) and Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition (2002).