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Shackled Sentiments: Slaves, Spirits, and Memories in the African Diaspora

Shackled Sentiments: Slaves, Spirits, and Memories in the African Diaspora

by Eric J. Montgomery (Editor), Natacha Giafferi-Dombre (Contributor), Nixon Cleophat (Contributor)

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    Hardcover 2019

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Synopsis

The ramifications of the trans-Saharan, trans-Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and domestic African slave trades are immeasurable, and they continue to disaffect black people from Africa to Haiti and Los Angeles to Lagos. Shackled Sentiments focuses on the memories and embodiments of slavery through case studies from western, eastern, and central Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. The contributors to this collection examine the ways that that memories of slavery have been internalized. Slavery and memory are assessed from multiple perspectives: as sets of ritual practices, community-based systems of spirit veneration, mechanisms of resistance and national pride, sacred languages informing personhood, and instruments for healing and well-being. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, history, religion, art, and linguistics.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 254
 Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 21 Jan 2019
ISBN 10: 1498585981
ISBN 13: 9781498585989

Media Reviews
Shackled Sentiments is a most welcome, unique, and important book. This collection provides an international and interdisciplinary approach to one of the gravest and most haunting of all human conditions or crimes: slavery. Eric Montgomery is to be resoundingly applauded for culling expert voices from throughout the Atlantic world to offer in a single collection the fine chapters on offer in Shackled Sentiments. In addition to providing readers with new knowledge about slavery, this volume offers compelling new insights about the historical and geographic reaches, ramifications, and contours of slavery, and it should inspire deep humanistic reflection not just on this topic but about our very existence as a species. -- Terry Rey, Temple University
Author Bio
Eric J. Montgomery is cultural anthropologist at the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Wayne State University and the Department of Anthropology at Central Michigan University.