Sutherland,Patsy (Editor), Moodley,Roy (Editor), and Chevannes,Barry (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2014
Published:
New York, NY: Routledge
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
264 p., Draws on the knowledge of prominent clinicians, scholars, and researchers of the Caribbean and the diaspora, exploring healing traditions in the context of health and mental health.
Zeller,Benjamin E. (Editor) and American Academy of Religion (Association)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2014
Published:
New York: Columbia University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
336 p., This anthology considers theological foodways, identity foodways, negotiated foodways, and activist foodways in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. Includes Elizabeth Pérez' "Negotiated foodways. Crystallizing subjectivities in the African diaspora : sugar, honey, and the gods of Afro-Cuban Lucumí."
Blanes,Ruy Llera (Editor) and Espirito Santo,Diana (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2014
Published:
Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
305 p., By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the contributors of this book uncover a livelier, more diverse environment of entities--with their own histories, motivations, and social interactions--providing a new understanding of spirits not as symbols, but as agents.
Willaarts,Bárbara A. (Editor), Garrido,Alberto (Editor), and Llamas, Manuel Ramón (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2014
Published:
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
432 p., Provides an analytical and facts-based overview on the progress achieved in water security in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region over during the last decade, and its links to regional development, food security and human well-being. Focuses on four key themes: setting out the background to water, nature and food in the region; drivers of changing conditions; pressures and challenges; and responses and enabling conditions."
