Materialities of Ritual in the Black Atlantic

Akinwumi Ogundiran is Professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology, and History and Chair of the Africana Studies Department at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is editor (with Toyin Falola) of Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora (IUP, 2007).

Paula Saunders is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York.

About the author

Akinwumi Ogundiran is Professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology, and History and Chair of the Africana Studies Department at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is editor (with Toyin Falola) of Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora (IUP, 2007).
Paula Saunders is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York.

Summary

Focusing on everyday rituals, this book includes essays that look at spheres of social action and the places throughout the Atlantic world where African-descended communities have expressed their values, ideas, beliefs, and spirituality in material terms.

Product details

• Assisted by: Akinwumi Ogundiran (Editor), Paula Saunders (Editor), Edited by Akinwumi Ogundiran and Paula S (Editor), Akinwumi O. Ogundiran (Editor)
• Authors: Akinwumi (EDT)/ Saunders Ogundiran, Akinwumi O. Saunders Ogundiran, Akinwumi Saunders Ogundiran
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 03.10.2014
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity
• EAN: 9780253013866
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01386-6
• Pages: 410
• Series: Blacks in the Diaspora (Hardco; Blacks in the Diaspora; Blacks in the Diaspora (Hardco; Indiana University Press (IPS)