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Central Africa in the Caribbean : transcending time, transforming cultures

Author: Maureen Warner Lewis
Publisher: Kingston, Jamaica : University of West Indies Press, 2003.
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Lewis, Maureen Warner.
Central Africa in the Caribbean.
Kingston, Jamaica : University of West Indies Press, 2003
(OCoLC)656868450
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Maureen Warner Lewis
ISBN: 9766401187 9789766401184
OCLC Number: 51939933
Description: xxxvi, 391 p. : ill., maps, music ; 23 cm.
Contents: West Central Africa after European contact --
Experiences of enslavement --
Central Africans as individuals in community --
Economic skills and domestic activity --
Interpersonal relationships : courtesies and rites of passage --
Religious cosmology and praxis --
Christianity and associated religions --
Accessing power : ritual war and masquerade --
Pleasurable leisure : games, dance and music --
Speech culture --
Language legacy --
Conclusion.
Responsibility: Maureen Warner-Lewis.

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