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Shackled Sentiments

Slaves, Spirits, and Memories in the African Diaspora

Edited by Eric J. Montgomery - Contributions by Nixon Cleophat; Natacha Giafferi-Dombre; Maureen Elgersman Lee; Laura Álvarez López; Gerasimos Makris; chair of History and Institutions of Africa; Christian Vannier and Meera Venkatchalam

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 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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Lexington Books
Pages: 252 • Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-4985-8598-9 • Hardback • January 2019 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
978-1-4985-8600-9 • Paperback • July 2021 • $44.99 • (£35.00)
Subjects: Social Science / Anthropology / General, Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural
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.

Chapter 1: American Women Anthropologists of the 20th Century on Haitian Vodou: A Brief Review

Natacha Giafferi-Dombre



Chapter 2: Vodou as the Embryo and Marker of Haitian Socio-Historical Identity

Nixon Cleophat



Chapter 3: Remembering Our Mothers: Black Women, Slavery, and Maternal Power in Barbados and Jamaica

Maureen Elgersman Lee



Chapter 4: The Past is Present: Slavery, Personhood, and Mimesis in Ewe Gorovodu and Mama Tchamba (Togo)

Eric Montgomery



Chapter 5: Slavery, Possession and Witchcraft in the Sudan: The Journey of the Zar Tumbura Cult

Gerasimos Makris

Chapter 6: Living with the Ghosts of Slavery in Western Eweland: Taming Ancestral Energies and Creating Ritual Cultures

Meera Venkatachalam



Chapter 7: Possession, Power, and Slavery in Eastern Africa

Beatrice Nicolini



Chapter 8: Slavery and Its Discontents: Shackled History as Spiritual Resources in Jamaica

Christian Vannier



Chapter 9: The Language of the Slave Spirits in Brazil

Laura Alvarez Lopez

The authors offer a collection of dynamic, cross-cultural analyses that represent new approaches to understanding how African descendant communities have “erected their own belief and moral system in response to institutionalized slavery” (p. xxiii). Taken together, the essays make one of the strongest cases yet for multidisciplinary scholarship that examines and compares local and regional conceptions of ritual, religion, and historical memory over time.


— BRILL


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


Shackled Sentiments

Slaves, Spirits, and Memories in the African Diaspora

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Hardback
Paperback
Summary
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  • 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 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.

Details
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  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 252 • Trim: 6¼ x 9
    978-1-4985-8598-9 • Hardback • January 2019 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
    978-1-4985-8600-9 • Paperback • July 2021 • $44.99 • (£35.00)
    Subjects: Social Science / Anthropology / General, Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural
Author
Author
  • 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.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Chapter 1: American Women Anthropologists of the 20th Century on Haitian Vodou: A Brief Review

    Natacha Giafferi-Dombre



    Chapter 2: Vodou as the Embryo and Marker of Haitian Socio-Historical Identity

    Nixon Cleophat



    Chapter 3: Remembering Our Mothers: Black Women, Slavery, and Maternal Power in Barbados and Jamaica

    Maureen Elgersman Lee



    Chapter 4: The Past is Present: Slavery, Personhood, and Mimesis in Ewe Gorovodu and Mama Tchamba (Togo)

    Eric Montgomery



    Chapter 5: Slavery, Possession and Witchcraft in the Sudan: The Journey of the Zar Tumbura Cult

    Gerasimos Makris

    Chapter 6: Living with the Ghosts of Slavery in Western Eweland: Taming Ancestral Energies and Creating Ritual Cultures

    Meera Venkatachalam



    Chapter 7: Possession, Power, and Slavery in Eastern Africa

    Beatrice Nicolini



    Chapter 8: Slavery and Its Discontents: Shackled History as Spiritual Resources in Jamaica

    Christian Vannier



    Chapter 9: The Language of the Slave Spirits in Brazil

    Laura Alvarez Lopez

Reviews
Reviews
  • The authors offer a collection of dynamic, cross-cultural analyses that represent new approaches to understanding how African descendant communities have “erected their own belief and moral system in response to institutionalized slavery” (p. xxiii). Taken together, the essays make one of the strongest cases yet for multidisciplinary scholarship that examines and compares local and regional conceptions of ritual, religion, and historical memory over time.


    — BRILL


    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


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