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Crossroads and Cosmologies: Diasporas and Ethnogenesis in the New World

Crossroads and Cosmologies: Diasporas and Ethnogenesis in the New World

Fennell, Christopher C.

Paperback

Series: Cultural Heritage Studies

AnthropologyArchaeologyBlack American Studies

ISBN10: 0813034965
ISBN13: 9780813034966
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: Apr 15 2010
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Christopher Fennell offers a fresh perspective on ways that the earliest enslaved Africans preserved vital aspects of their traditions and identities in the New World. He also explores similar developments among European immigrants and the interactions of both groups with Native Americans.

Focusing on extant artifacts left by displaced Africans, Fennell finds that material culture and religious ritual contributed to a variety of modes of survival in mainland North America as well as in the Caribbean and Brazil. Over time, new symbols of culture led to further changes in individual customs and beliefs as well as the creation of new social groups and new expressions of identity.

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