Signs of Diaspora / Diaspora of Signs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Signs of Diaspora / Diaspora of Signs write by Grey Gundaker. This book was released on 1998-07-30. Signs of Diaspora / Diaspora of Signs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Challenging monolithic approaches to culture and literacy, this book looks at the roots of African-American reading and writing from the perspective of vernacular activities and creolization. It shows that African-Americans, while readily mastering the conventions and canons of Euro-America, also drew on knowledge of their own to make an oppositional repertoire of signs and meanings. Distinct from conventional script literacy on the one hand, and oral culture on the other, these "creolized" vernacular practices include writing in charms, use of personal or nondecodable scripts, the strategic renunciation of reading and writing as communicative tools, and writing that is linked to divination, trance, and possession. Based on extensive ethnographic research in the Southeastern United States and the West Indies, Gundaker offers a complex portrait of the intersection of "outsider" conventions with "insider" knowledge and practice.
Signs of Diaspora/diaspora of Signs
Signs of Diaspora/diaspora of Signs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Signs of Diaspora/diaspora of Signs write by Grey Gundaker. This book was released on 1998. Signs of Diaspora/diaspora of Signs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examining the interplay of cultural trajectories and sign systems in the African diaspora, particularly in the U.S., Gundaker shows that African Americans, while readily mastering the conventions and canons of Euro-America, also drew on knowledge of their own to make an oppositional repertoire of signs and meanings.
Signatures and Signs
Signatures and Signs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Signatures and Signs write by Alexis Brooks De Vita. This book was released on 1998. Signatures and Signs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
African Americans and the Bible
African Americans and the Bible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Americans and the Bible write by Vincent L. Wimbush. This book was released on 2012-09-01. African Americans and the Bible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Perhaps no other group of people has been as much formed by biblical texts and tropes as African Americans. From literature and the arts to popular culture and everyday life, the Bible courses through black society and culture like blood through veins. Despite the enormous recent interest in African American religion, relatively little attention has been paid to the diversity of ways in which African Americans have utilized the Bible. African Americans and the Bible is the fruit of a four-year collaborative research project directed by Vincent L. Wimbush and funded by the Lilly Endowment. It brings together scholars and experts (sixty-eight in all) from a wide range of academic and artistic fields and disciplines--including ethnography, cultural history, and biblical studies as well as art, music, film, dance, drama, and literature. The focus is on the interaction between the people known as African Americans and that complex of visions, rhetorics, and ideologies known as the Bible. As such, the book is less about the meaning(s) of the Bible than about the Bible and meaning(s), less about the world(s) of the Bible than about how worlds and the Bible interact--in short, about how a text constructs a people and a people constructs a text. It is about a particular sociocultural formation but also about the dynamics that obtain in the interrelation between any group of people and sacred texts in general. Thus African Americans and the Bible provides an exemplum of sociocultural formation and a critical lens through which the process of sociocultural formation can be viewed.
Sacred Spaces and Religious Traditions in Oriente Cuba
Sacred Spaces and Religious Traditions in Oriente Cuba - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sacred Spaces and Religious Traditions in Oriente Cuba write by Jualynne E. Dodson. This book was released on 2008. Sacred Spaces and Religious Traditions in Oriente Cuba available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dodson examines the history of traditional religious practices in the Oriente region of contemporary Cuba.
