Talking to the Dead

Manigault-Bryant LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant

Description

Talking to the Dead is an ethnography of seven Gullah/Geechee women from the South Carolina lowcountry. These women communicate with their ancestors through dreams, prayer, and visions and traditional crafts and customs, such as storytelling, basket making, and ecstatic singing in their churches. Like other Gullah/Geechee women of the South Carolina and Georgia coasts, these women, through their active communication with the deceased, make choices and receive guidance about how to live out their faith and engage with the living. LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant emphasizes that this communication affirms the women's spiritual faith-which seamlessly integrates Christian and folk traditions-and reinforces their position as powerful culture keepers within Gullah/Geechee society. By looking in depth at this long-standing spiritual practice, Manigault-Bryant highlights the subversive ingenuity that lowcountry inhabitants use to thrive spiritually and to maintain a sense of continuity with the past.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• USA
• Carolina del Sur
• Worship
• South Carolina
• États-Unis
• Caroline du Sud

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 14 mai 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822376705
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

talking to the dead

éRôà S. Mààû-Bà

à ô é éà religion, music, and lived memory among gullah/geechee women

Dûé Uéŝ Péŝŝ Dûà à ôô 

©  Dûé Uéŝ Péŝŝ A ŝ éŝéé Pé  é Ué Sàéŝ ô Aéçà ô àç-éé àé ∞ Déŝé  Héàé Héŝé Téŝé  Qûààà  Gàç Côôŝô, ïç., Bôà, Géôà

à ô Côéŝŝ Cààô--Pûçàô Dàà Mààû, éRôà S. Tà ô é éà : éô, ûŝç, à é éô àô Gûà-Gééçéé ôé / éRôà S. Mààû-Bà.  àéŝ ç  ïçûéŝ ôàçà éééçéŝ à é.  isbn –––– (çô : à. àé)  isbn –––– (. : à. àé) . Gûà ôé—Réôûŝ é—Sôû Càôà. . Gûàŝ—Sôû Càôà—Réô. . Sûàŝ. . Sôû Càôà—Réôûŝ é à çûŝôŝ. i. Té.  e..sm   .—ç 

to james Wô ŝéŝ é à Wô ŝûôŝ é àŝôûé A ô ôéŝ é ûçôôà

contents

 acknowledgments

prologue

introduction

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chapter 

chapter 

chapter 

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epilogue

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 Tàkîng tô the Deà  

Guàh/Geeçhee Wôen   Cutue Keees   Fôk Reîgîôn  

“Ah Tuk tô e Deà A e Tîe”   “Senîn’ U My Tîbàh”   Lîve Meôy   Beteen the Lîvîng àn the Deà  

Côànîôn Auîô Màteîàs   ïntevîe Fôàt àn Deôgàhîçs   

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acknowledgments

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