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Focusing on everyday rituals, the essays in this volume 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. The
contributors trace the impact of encounters with the Atlantic world
on African cultural formation, how entanglement with commerce,
commodification, and enslavement and with colonialism,
emancipation, and self-rule manifested itself in the shaping of
ritual acts such as those associated with birth, death, healing,
and protection. Taken as a whole, the book offers new perspectives
on what the materials of rituals can tell us about the intimate
processes of cultural transformation and the dynamics of the human
condition."
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