Research Catalog

Title

"Ah tulk to de dead all de time" : religion among the Gullah/Geechee women of the Carolina Lowcountry / LeRhonda S. Manigault.

Author

Manigault-Bryant, LeRhonda S., 1977-

Publication

c2007.

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Details

Description

321 p. : maps; 22 cm.

Alternative Title

I talk to the dead all the time : religion among the Gullah/Geechee women of the Carolina Lowcountry

Subject

• Gullah women > Religious life > South Carolina
• Gullahs > South Carolina > Religion
• Future life
• African Americans > South Carolina > Religion
• South Carolina > Religious life and customs

Thesis (note)

• Thesis (Ph.D.)--Emery University, Graduate Division of Religion, 2007.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262).

Reproduction (note)

• Photocopy.

Contents

Talking to the dead -- A womanist ethnographic approach -- Roots: the "peculiarity" and "Africanness" of the Gullah -- Womanist religious reflection -- Womanist ethnography -- Relating methodology and structure -- Religious people, religious ways -- Soulless bodies, bodiless souls -- Religion, patois, and the question of origins -- A history of Lowcountry women and religion -- Lowcountry religion and the church/Praise House -- Religious autonomy -- Conjure, voodoo, and superstition -- Transitions and continued beginnings -- The quest for Africanisms -- Increased investigations and African influences -- Historical dormancy and scholarly resurgence -- Gullah/Geechee religion: expanded perspectives -- When de dead speak, I listen -- Talking to the dead as religio-cultural practice -- Lowcountry women and contemporary religion -- Gendered identities -- Seekin', converging and diverging perspectives -- Talking to the dead as normal practice -- Sendin' up my timbah -- A history of musicality -- Singing the same song -- Language and rhythmic praxis -- Theology and meaning -- Music, shouting, and dancing -- Caught up in de spirit -- The memory of music -- The memory of Africa -- Africa as historical reality and lived identity -- African [dis]connections -- The commodificaiton of Gullah/Geechie culture -- Lost in translation: the future of Gullah/Geeche religion -- Between the living and the dead.

Call Number

Sc D 08-1676

OCLC

245539147

Author

Manigault-Bryant, LeRhonda S., 1977-

Title

"Ah tulk to de dead all de time" : religion among the Gullah/Geechee women of the Carolina Lowcountry / LeRhonda S. Manigault.

Imprint

c2007.

Thesis

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Emery University, Graduate Division of Religion, 2007.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262).

Reproduction

Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Dissertation Services, 2008.

Research Call Number

Sc D 08-1676