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"Among the Garifuna is the first ethnographic narrative of a Garifuna family. The Garifuna are descendants of the "Black Carib," whom the British deposited on Roatan Island in 1797 and who settled along the Caribbean coast from Belize City to Nicaragua. In 1980, medical anthropologist Marilyn McKillop Wells found herself embarking on an "improbable journey" when she was invited to the area to do fieldwork with the added challenge of revealing the "real" Garifuna. Upon her arrival on the island, Wells was warmly embraced by a local family, the Diegos, and set to work recording life events and indigenous perspectives on polygyny, Afro-indigenous identity, ancestor-worshiping religion, and more. The result, as represented in Among the Garifuna, is a lovingly intimate, earthy, human drama. The family narrative is organized chronologically. Part I, "The Old Ways," consists of vignettes that introduce the family backstory with dialogue as imagined by Wells based on the family history she was told. We meet the family progenitors, Margaret and Cervantes Diego, during their courtship, experience Margaret's pain as Cervantes takes a second wife, witness the death of Cervantes and ensuing mourning rituals, follow the return of Margaret and the children to their previous home in British Honduras, and observe the emergence of the children's personalities. In Part II, "Living There," Wells continues the story when she arrives in Belize and meets the Diego children, including the major protagonist, Tas. In Tas's household Wells learns about foods and manners and watches family squabbles and reconciliations. In these mini-stories, Wells interweaves cultural information on the Garifuna people with first-person narrative and transcription of their words, assembling these into an enthralling slice of life. Part III, "The Ancestor Party," takes the reader through a fascinating postmortem ritual that is enacted to facilitate the journey of the spirits of the honored ancestors to the supreme supernatural. Among the Garifuna contributes to the literary genres of narrative anthropology and feminist ethnography in the tradition of Zora Neal Hurston and other women writing culture in a personal way. Wells's portrait of this Garifuna family will be of interest to anthropologists, Caribbeanists, Latin Americanists, students, and general readers alike. "--
Garifuna (Caribbean people) --- Social life and customs. --- Ethnic identity. --- Diego family. --- Black Carib Indians --- Black Caribs --- Carifuna (Caribbean people) --- Garif (Caribbean people) --- Garifunas --- Garinagu (Caribbean people) --- Kariphuna (Caribbean people) --- Blacks --- Ethnology --- Island Carib Indians --- Racially mixed people --- Mixed descent --- Black people
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Anthropologie socio-culturelle --- Honduras --- Socio-culturele antropologie --- Garifuna (Caribbean people) --- Religion. --- 299.6*8 --- Black Carib Indians --- -Academic collection --- #GBIB: Camps --- Black Caribs --- Carifuna (Caribbean people) --- Garif (Caribbean people) --- Garifunas --- Garinagu (Caribbean people) --- Kariphuna (Caribbean people) --- Blacks --- Ethnology --- Island Carib Indians --- Racially mixed people --- Godsdiensten van de zwarten in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika. Voodoo --- Religion --- Mixed descent --- 299.6*8 Godsdiensten van de zwarten in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika. Voodoo --- Academic collection --- Black people --- Garifuna (Caribbean people) - Religion. --- Caraibes noirs (indiens)
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By joining a diaspora, a society may begin to change its religious, ethnic, and even racial identifications by rethinking its "pasts." This pioneering multisite ethnography explores how this phenomenon is affecting the remarkable religion of the Garifuna, historically known as the Black Caribs, from the Central American coast of the Caribbean. It is estimated that one-third of the Garifuna have migrated to New York City over the past fifty years. Paul Christopher Johnson compares Garifuna spirit possession rituals performed in Honduran villages with those conducted in New York, and what emerges is a compelling picture of how the Garifuna engage ancestral spirits across multiple diasporic horizons. His study sheds new light on the ways diasporic religions around the world creatively plot itineraries of spatial memory that at once recover and remold their histories.
Garifuna (Caribbean people) --- Black Carib Indians --- Black Caribs --- Carifuna (Caribbean people) --- Garif (Caribbean people) --- Garifunas --- Garinagu (Caribbean people) --- Kariphuna (Caribbean people) --- Blacks --- Ethnology --- Island Carib Indians --- Racially mixed people --- Ethnic identity. --- Religion. --- Migrations. --- Mixed descent --- Black people --- afro caribbean people. --- all powerful. --- ancestral spirits. --- arawak. --- arawakan. --- black caribs. --- bungiu. --- buyei. --- caribbean. --- central america. --- diaspora. --- dugu ceremony. --- ethnic identity. --- ethnography. --- garifuna people. --- garifuna religion. --- god. --- history. --- honduran villages. --- indigenous people. --- island carib. --- memory. --- migration. --- new york city. --- pasts. --- racial identity. --- religion. --- religious identity. --- ritual performances. --- saint vincent. --- shaman. --- spatial memory. --- spirit possession rituals. --- spiritual practices. --- spirituality. --- sunti gabafu. --- traditional practices.
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Black Carib Indians --- -Black Carib Indians --- -Indians in literature --- Indians of Central America in literature --- Indians of Mexico in literature --- Indians of North America in literature --- Indians of South America in literature --- Indians of the West Indies in literature --- Black Caribs --- Carifuna (Caribbean people) --- Garif (Caribbean people) --- Garifunas --- Garinagu (Caribbean people) --- Kariphuna (Caribbean people) --- Blacks --- Ethnology --- Island Carib Indians --- Racially mixed people --- First contact with Europeans --- Government relations --- History --- Mixed descent --- England --- France --- Colonies --- -Administration. --- Angleterre --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Engeland --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- Pʻŭrangsŭ --- Frankrig --- Francja --- Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Prantsusmaa --- Francia (Republic) --- Tsarfat --- Tsorfat --- Franḳraykh --- Frankreich --- Fa-kuo --- Faguo --- Франция --- French Republic --- République française --- Peurancih --- Frankryk --- Franse Republiek --- Francland --- Frencisc Cynewīse --- فرنسا --- Faransā --- Franza --- Republica Franzesa --- Gallia (Republic) --- Hyãsia --- Phransiya --- Fransa --- Fransa Respublikası --- Franse --- Францыя --- Frantsyi︠a︡ --- Французская Рэспубліка --- Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Parancis --- Pransya --- Franis --- Francuska --- Republika Francuska --- Bro-C'hall --- Френска република --- Frenska republika --- França --- República Francesa --- Pransiya --- Republikang Pranses --- Γαλλία --- Gallia --- Γαλλική Δημοκρατία --- Gallikē Dēmokratia --- فرانسه --- Farānsah --- צרפת --- רפובליקה הצרפתית --- Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit --- פראנקרייך --- 法国 --- 法蘭西共和國 --- Falanxi Gongheguo --- フランス --- Furansu --- フランス共和国 --- Furansu Kyōwakoku --- Francija --- Ranska --- Frankrike --- Indians in literature --- Calinago Indians --- Calino Indians --- Callinago Indians --- Kalinago Indians --- Indians of the West Indies --- Cariban Indians --- First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners --- England and Wales --- Administration. --- First contact (Anthropology) --- ANTILLES --- DESCRIPTIONS ET VOYAGES
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