Oduduwa's Chain: Locations of Culture in the Yoruba-Atlantic
Andrew Apter
Abstract
This book challenges the seasoned trend of disavowing Africa in the Black Atlantic, showing how Yoruba cultural frameworks from West Africa remade black kingdoms and communities in the Americas. Highlighting revisionary strategies and regenerative schemes that are grounded in the dialectics of ritual renewal, it revisits classic topoi in Afro-American studies such as Herskovits’s syncretic paradigm, the petwo paradox in Haitian Vodou, the historical conditions of orisha cult clustering, re-mappings of gender in plantation societies, and the rise of Lucumí and Nagô houses in Cuba and Brazil, in ... More
Keywords: Yoruba-Atlantic, orisha worship, creolization, Cuban Santería, Haitian Vodou, Brazilian Candomblé, Black Atlantic
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 | Print ISBN-13: 9780226506388 |
| Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: May 2018 | DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226506555.001.0001 |
