Verger,Pierre (Author), Neto,Mário Cravo (Author), Metzner,Manfred (Editor), and Thoss,Michael (Editor)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
German
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Heidelberg: Wunderhorn
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
On the occasion of the exhibition "Black Gods in Exile [Schwarze Götter im Exil] photographs by Pierre Verger and Mario Cravo Neto Fatumbi." Ethnological Museum, Berlin - Dahlem , 2 September to 7 November 2004., 351 p., Traditions in Brazilian Candomblé, Haitian voodoo and Cuban Santeria, the collective memory of the African-American population, are portrayed in the photographs of French ethnologist and photographer Pierre Verger.
Viola,Herman J. (Author) and Margolis,Carolyn (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1991
Published:
Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
277 p, Details the processes of encounter and exchange between Europe and the cultures of the Americas and Africa since their discovery by Europeans five hundred years ago. Includes David B. Gaspar's "Antigua slaves and their struggle to survive"
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
101 p, A narrative history with the catalogue of an exhibition of rare prints, maps, and illustrated books from the John Carter Brown Library. Contents: 1. The birth of the Dutch Republic and the world war against Habsburg Spain -- 2. The West Indies Company -- 3. The Dutch in Brazil : a peerless prince in Pernambuco -- 4. Images and knowledge of the New World -- 5. "In some future day it may be thought of more importance" : Dutch contributions to North American history -- 6. The Guianas and the Caribbean Islands; "Exhibition sites: The John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island, May 9 to September 15, 1997; the Equitable Gallery, New York, New York, January 22 to April 4, 1998"--T.p. verso. "Preface" (p. xiii-xv)
