AFA copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Bookplate: In memory of William C. Siegmann.
Contents:
Ekpe/Abuká in middle passage: time, space and units of analysis in African American historical anthropology / Stephan Palmié -- Jolly masquerades of Sierra Leone and the Creole histories of Atlantic Rim performance arts / John Nunley -- Memories of slavery in religious ritual: comparing Benin Vodun and Bahian Candomblé / Luis Nicolau Parés -- Scarification and the loss of history in the African diaspora / Paul E. Lovejoy -- Secrecy, shrines, and memory: Diola oral traditions and the slave trade in Senegal / Robert M. Baum -- Vodu angels of history: Ghana, Togo, Benin / Judy Rosenthal -- Pantheons as mythistorical archives: pantheonization and remodeled iconographies in two Southern Caribbean possession religions / Keith McNeal -- "Koup Tet": a machete wielding view of the Haitian Revolution / Thomas J. Desch-Obi -- A goat̕s tale: diabolical economies of the Bahian Interior / Brian Brazeal -- Espiritismo altars in Puerto Rico and Cuba: the Indian and the Congo / Judith Bettelheim -- Muñecas and memoryscapes: negotiating identity and history in Cuban espiritismo / Carrie Viarnes -- Black folks at home in the spirit world / Patrick Arthur Polk -- Conversations with Congo Manuel: kings and slaves in the eschatology of espiritismo / Donald Cosentino
Summary:
"Activating the past explores critical historical events and transformations associated with embodied memories in the Black Atlantic world. The assembled case-studies disclose hidden historical references to local and regional encounters with Atlantic modernity, focusing on religious festivals that represent political and economic relationships in "fetishized" forms of power and value." - Back cover.
