Euba,Akin (Editor) and Kimberlin,Cynthia Tse (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
Pt. Richmond, CA: MRI Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
202 p., Includes Tan Sooi Beng's "African music in Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Asia meets Africa: cross-cultural communication through the Rainforest World Music Festival, Sarawak."
Animan Akassi,Clément (Editor) and Lavou,Victorien (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Language:
Spanish, English, and French
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
Perpignan: Presses universitaires de Perpignan
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
358 p., Contents include "The africans and afrodescendants who constructed Veracruz and the jarocho ethos 1521-1778" by Marco Polo Hernàndez-Cuevas; (Re)presentacién afro-panameria en pensamientos del negro cubena: pensamiento afro-panameûo de Carlos Guillermo 'Cubena' Wilson" by Laverne M. Seales-Saley; "Mâs allâ del 'folklore': bunde y bullerengue, ritmos africanos de liberacién en Panamà" by Xiomara Aldeano-Bolton; "Repensando los movimientos sociales afrodescendientes en las Américas y el espacio Caribe" by Jesiis "Chucho" Garcia; "Negrismo and négritude: reflection on two poetics of Caribbean cultural identity" by Mamadou Badiane; "Politicas culturales, la formacién de la identidad hispano-africana y el hombre y la costumbre" by Elisa Rizo; "Movimientos culturales y politicos Afroperuanos entre los arios 1980-2000" by Alexis Rossemond;
Rodríguez,Jaime Arocha (Editor) and Quintero Barrera,Rosa Patricia (Editor)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
Spanish
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Centro de Estudios Sociales, Grupo de Estudios Afrocolombianos
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Papers from a seminar held Oct. 28-29, 2004, at the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia., 293 p., A collection of personal tributes to the life and work of Nina S. de Friedemann, as well as writings related to her research on the black population in Colombia.
Greenfield,Sidney M. (Author) and Droogers,A. F. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
232 p, Contents: Recovering and reconstructing syncretism / André Droogers, Sidney M. Greenfield -- A Yoruba healer as syncretic specialist: herbalism, rosicrucianism and the Babalawo / Frank A. Salamon -- Population growth, industrialization and the proliferation of syncretized religions in Brazil / Sidney M. Greenfield -- Ethnicity, purity, the market and syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cults / Roberto Motta -- Religious syncretism in an Afro-Brazilian cult house / Sergio F. Ferretti -- The presence of non-African spirits in an Afro-Brazilian religion: a case of Afro-Amerindian syncretism? / Mundicarmo M.R. Ferretti -- The reinterpretation of Africa: convergence and syncretism in Brazilian Candomblé / Sidney M. Greenfield -- Possession and syncretism: spirits as mediators in modernity / Inger Sjørslev -- Joana's story: syncretism at the actor's level / André Droogers -- Ragga cowboys: country and western themes in Rastafarian-inspired Reggae music / Werner Zips -- Polyvocality and constructions of syncretism in Winti / Ineke van Wetering -- Seeking syncretism: the case of Sathya Sai Baba / Morton Klass
Special issue of the journal Daedalus., 205 p., Twelve noted international scholars examine selected significant aspects of the historical and contemporary experience of black peoples in the Americas and Africa.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
669 p., Essays cover the experiences of black women in Africa, the Caribbean, South America, and the United States in politics, business, the community, the arts, the family, and social change.
