Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora 1st Edition by Linda Heywood 0521002788 9780521002783

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ISBN 10: 0521002788 

ISBN 13: 9780521002783

Author: Linda M. Heywood

This volume sets out a new paradigm that increases our understanding of African culture and the forces that led to its transformation during the period of the Atlantic slave trade and beyond, putting long due emphasis on the importance of Central African culture to the cultures of the United States, Brazil, and the Caribbean. Focusing on the Kongo/Angola culture zone, the book illustrates how African peoples re-shaped their cultural institutions as they interacted with Portuguese slave traders up to 1800, then follows Central Africans through all the regions where they were taken as slaves and captives.

Table of contents:

Pt. 1. Central Africa: Society, Culture, and the Slave Trade
1. Central Africa During the Era of the Slave Trade, c. 1490s-1850s / Joseph C. Miller
2. Religious and Ceremonial Life in the Kongo and Mbundu Areas, 1500-1700 / John K. Thornton
3. Portuguese into African: The Eighteenth-Century Central African Background to Atlantic Creole Cultures / Linda M. Heywood
Pt. 2. Central Africans in Brazil
4. Central Africans in Central Brazil, 1780-1835 / Mary C. Karasch
5. Who Is the King of Congo? A New Look at African and Afro-Brazilian Kings in Brazil / Elizabeth W. Kiddy
6. The Great Porpoise-Skull Strike: Central African Water Spirits and Slave Identity in Early-Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro / Robert W. Slenes
Pt. 3. Central Africans in Haiti and Spanish America
7. Twins, Simbi Spirits, and Lwas in Kongo and Haiti / Wyatt MacGaffey
8. The Central African Presence in Spanish Maroon Communities / Jane Landers
9. Central African Popular Christianity and the Making of Haitian Vodou Religion / Hein Vanhee
10. Kongolese Catholic Influences on Haitian Popular Catholicism: A Sociohistorical

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