African communities in Asia and the Mediterranean identities between integration and conflict
The undeniable presence of the past and its cultural vestiges in the daily lives of displaced populations has been a noticeable feature of diasporas across the globe. The world of spirits and the need to keep in constant touch with them have been part and parcel of almost all pre-modern cultural sys...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Trenton, New Jersey :
Africa World Press
2012
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991010356809708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
| Summary: | The undeniable presence of the past and its cultural vestiges in the daily lives of displaced populations has been a noticeable feature of diasporas across the globe. The world of spirits and the need to keep in constant touch with them have been part and parcel of almost all pre-modern cultural systems, African ones being a prominent case in point. There can hardly be any doubt that coerced displacement and forced migration of enslaved populations from Africa into many parts of the world was a traumatic experience, and Africans in the diasporic communities of the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean Worlds had frequent and intense recourse to significant components of their origin-cultures |
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| Physical Description: | VIII, 328 p. ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. [301]-309) e índice |
| ISBN: | 9781592218516 |
