Diaspora Conversions - Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa (Paperback)

"I'm extremely impressed by Johnson's book. "Diaspora Conversions" offers an outstanding combination of theoretical acuity, erudition, and ethnographic prowess. It is bound to become highly influential in the study of religion in motion."--Manuel A. Vasquez, co-author of "Globalizing the Sacred: Religion Across the Americas"
"Johnson's work bursts through the present conversations on African diaspora and brings us onto entirely new ground, shattering simplistic ideas and replacing them with critical distinctions. This smart and talented ethnographer succeeds in combining detailed and rich ethnographic fieldwork with an unrelentingly critical and sophisticated analysis. Johnson's work brings to life one of the most central, perhaps the most central, classic question of African American anthropology: "How is Black culture constituted, even through dislocation and displacement?"--Elizabeth McAlister, author of "Rara! Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora"
""Diasporic Conversions" convincingly breaks new ground by showing how the meaning of 'homeland' is fundamentally a product of historically situated and contested forms of collective imagination. What will make Johnson's book a benchmark in the study of the African diaspora, and diasporic situations more generally, is that it is not just a richly documented and rigorously argued ethnography, but a genuine anthropology of historical consciousness."--Stephan Palmie, author of "Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition"

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2007
First published:	September 2007
Authors:	Paul Christopher Johnson
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	343
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-24970-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Alternative belief systems > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Alternative belief systems > General
LSN:	0-520-24970-4
Barcode:	9780520249707

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