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Rethinking the African diaspora : the making of a Black Atlantic world in the Bight of Benin and Brazil

Title
Rethinking the African diaspora : the making of a Black Atlantic world in the Bight of Benin and Brazil / editors, Kristin Mann and Edna G. Bay.
Publication
London ; Portland, OR : F. Cass, 2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Mann, Kristin, 1946-
  • Bay, Edna G.
Description
160 p. : map; 22 cm.
Series Statement
Studies in slave and post-slave societies and cultures, 1462-1770
Subject
  • African diaspora
  • Brazilians > Benin, Bight of, Region > History
  • Brazil > Civilization > African influences
  • Africa, West > Civilization > Brazilian influences
  • Benin, Bight of, Region > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Shifting paradigms in the study of the African diaspora and of Atlantic history and culture / Kristin Mann -- The evolution of the Brazilian community in Ouidah / Robin Law -- Protection, political exile, and the Atlantic slave-trade : history and collective memory in Dahomey / Edna G. Bay -- Some reflections on the Brazilian legacy in Dahomey / Elisée Soumonni -- The identity, contributions, and ideology of the Aguda (Afro-Brazilians) of the Gulf of Benin : a reinterpretation / Olabiyi Babalola Yai -- Buying and selling Korans in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro / Alberto Da Costa E Silva -- The Jeje in the Tambor de Mina of Maranhão and in the Candomblé of Bahia / Luis Nicolau Parés -- Candomblé in nineteenth-century Bahia : priests, followers, clients / João José Reis -- Africa in the reinvention of nineteenth-century Afro-Bahian identity / Kim D. Butler.
Call Number
Sc D 02-405
ISBN
  • 071465129X (cloth)
  • 0714680796
  • 071468158X (pbk.)
LCCN
2001028986
OCLC
46908130
Title
Rethinking the African diaspora : the making of a Black Atlantic world in the Bight of Benin and Brazil / editors, Kristin Mann and Edna G. Bay.
Imprint
London ; Portland, OR : F. Cass, 2001.
Series
Studies in slave and post-slave societies and cultures, 1462-1770
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Mann, Kristin, 1946-
Bay, Edna G.
Research Call Number
Sc D 02-405
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