Materialities of ritual in the Black Atlantic [electronic resource] / edited by Akinwumi Ogundiran and Paula Saunders.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On the materiality of Black Atlantic rituals / Akinwumi Ogundiran and Paula Saunders -- Reconstructing the archaeology of movement in northern Ghana : insights into past ritual posture and performance / Timothy Insoll and Benjamin W. Kankpeyeng -- Sacred vortices of the African Atlantic world : materiality of the accumulative aesthetic in the Hueda kingdom, 1650 / Neil L. Norman -- Cowries and rituals of self-realization in the Yoruba region, West Africa, ca. 1600 / Akinwumi Ogundiran -- Spiritual vibrations of historic Kormantse and the search for African diaspora identity and freedom / E. Kofi Agorsah -- Rituals of iron in the Black Atlantic world / Candice Goucher -- Transatlantic meanings : African rituals and material culture in the early modern Spanish Caribbean / Pablo F. Gomez -- "Instruments of obeah" : the significance of ritual objects in the Jamaican legal system, 1760 to the present / Danielle Boaz -- Charms and spiritual practitioners : negotiating power dynamics in an enslaved African community in Jamaica / Paula Saunders -- Mundane or spiritual? the interpretation of glass bottle containers found on two sites of the African diaspora / Matthew Reeves -- Ritual bundle in colonial Annapolis / Mark P. Leone, Jocelyn E. Knauf and Amanda Tang -- Dexterous creation : material manifestations of instrumental symbolism in the Americas / Christopher C. Fennell -- Ritualized figuration in special African American yards / Grey Gundaker -- "I cry 'I am' for all to hear me" : the informal cemetery in central Georgia / Hugh B. Matternes and Staci Richey -- Spatial and material transformations in commemoration on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands / Helen C. Blouet -- "As above, so below" : ritual and commemoration in African American archaeological contexts in the northern United States / Cheryl J. LaRoche -- Cape Coast Castle and rituals of memory / Brempong Osei-Tutu.

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