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2. O quilombo do Rio das Rãs: histórias, tradições, lutas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Carvalho,José Jorge de (Editor), Doria,Siglia Zambrotti (Editor), and Oliveira,Adolfo Neves, Jr. (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Publication Date:
- 1996
- Published:
- Salvador: Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais : Editora da Universidade Federal da Bahia
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Papers presented at the I Seminário das Comunidades Negras do Sertão da Bahia, held at the Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais in December 1993., 270 p., Contents: A experiência histórica nas Américas e no Brasil / José Jorge de Carvalho -- A comunidade rural negra do Rio das Rãs ; O processo de ocupação da região do Rio das Rãs ; A experiência comunitæria ; Símbolos e projeções míticas da história ; A comunidade negra do Rio das Rãs : remanescentes dos quilombos ; Estado atual da luta jurídica / Siglia Zambrotti Doria e José Jorge de Carvalho -- Reflexão antropológica e prática pericial / Adolfo Neves de Oliveira Jr; Seminário das Comunidades Negras do Sertão da Bahia
3. Women and religion in the African diaspora: knowledge, power, and performance
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Griffith,R. Marie (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2006
- Published:
- Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 374 p., This volume's transnational mixture, along with its use of creative analytical approaches, challenges existing paradigms and summons new models for studying women, religions, and diasporic shiftings across time and space. Includes "É a senzala: slavery, women, and embodied knowledge in Afro-Brazilian Candomblé" by Rachel Elizabeth Harding, "'I smoothed the way; I opened doors': women in the Yoruba-Orisha tradition of Trinidad' by Tracey E. Hucks, and "Joining the African diaspora: migration and diasporic religious culture among the Garifuna in Honduras and New York" by Paul Christopher Johnson.