Talking to the Dead | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780822356745 | Talking to the Dead | Lerhonda S. Manigault-Bryant | Taschenbuch

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Talking to the Dead is an ethnography of seven Gullah/Geechee women from the South Carolina lowcountry. These women communicate with their ancestors through dreams, prayer, and visions and traditional crafts and customs, such as storytelling, basket making, and ecstatic singing in their churches. Like other Gullah/Geechee women of the South Carolina and Georgia coasts, these women, through their active communication with the deceased, make choices and receive guidance about how to live out their faith and engage with the living. LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant emphasizes that this communication affirms the women's spiritual faith-which seamlessly integrates Christian and folk traditions-and reinforces their position as powerful culture keepers within Gullah/Geechee society. By looking in depth at this long-standing spiritual practice, Manigault-Bryant highlights the subversive ingenuity that lowcountry inhabitants use to thrive spiritually and to maintain a sense of continuity with the past.

Über den Autor

LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Williams College.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Prologue. Talking to the Dead xiii

Introduction. Gullah/Geechee Women 1

1. Culture Keepers 24

2. Folk Religion 66

3. "Ah Tulk to de Dead All de Time" 104

4. "Sendin' Up My Timbah" 136

5. Lived Memory 172

Epilogue. Between the Living and the Dead 205

Appendix A. Companion Audio Materials 211

Appendix B. Interview Format and Demographics 213

Notes 217

Select Bibliography 251

Index 267

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780822356745
ISBN-10:	0822356740
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Manigault-Bryant, Lerhonda S.
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Lerhonda S. Manigault-Bryant
Erscheinungsdatum:	06.06.2014
Gewicht:	0,438 kg