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Central Africa in the Caribbean : transcending time, transforming cultures

Title: Central Africa in the Caribbean : transcending time, transforming cultures / Maureen Warner-Lewis.
Author: Warner-Lewis, Maureen.
Publication: Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2003.

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xxxvi, 391 p. : ill., maps, music; 23 cm.

Summary

Maureen Warner-Lewis's pioneering study analyses some of the main lineaments of the Central African cultural legacy in the Caribbean, with fascinating transatlantic comparative data. She identifies Central African cultural forms in areas settled by the Koongo, Mbundu and Ovimbunda (the two present-day Congos and Angola) and illuminates Caribbean thought and customs through comparison with those cultures.-- Back cover.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 360-385) and index.

Contents

West Central Africa after European contact -- Experiences of enslavement -- Central Africans as individuals in community -- Economic skills and domestic activity -- Interpersonal relationships : courtesies and rites of passage -- Religious cosmology and praxis -- Christianity and associated religions -- Accessing power : ritual war and masquerade -- Pleasurable leisure : games, dance and music -- Speech culture -- Language legacy -- Conclusion.

ISBN

9766401187
9789766401184

LCCN

2010500726

OCLC

ocm51939933
51939933
SCSB-1522317

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Princeton University Library