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Forward Jan Vansina | |
Introduction Linda Heywood | |
Part I. Central Africa: Society, Culture and the Slave Trade: 1. Central Africa during the era of the slave trade, c. 1490s-1850s Joseph C. Miller | |
2. Religious and ceremonial life in the Congo and Mbundu areas, 1500-1700 John K. Thornton | |
3. Portuguese into African: the eighteenth century Central African background to Atlantic Creole culture Linda Heywood | |
Part II. Central Africans in Brazil: 4. Central Africans in Central Brazil, 1780-1835 Mary Karasch | |
5. Who is king of the Congo? A new look at African and Afro-Brazilian Kings in Brazil Elizabeth W. Kiddy | |
6. The great porpoise-skull strike: Central-African water spirits and slave identity in early nineteenth-century Rio De Janeiro Robert W. Slenes | |
Part III. Central Africans in Haiti and Spanish America: 7. Twins, Simbi spirits and Lwas in Kongo and Haiti Wyatt MacGaffey | |
8. The Central African presence in Spanish Maroon communities Jane Landers | |
9. Central African popular Christianity and the making of Haitian Vodou religion Hein Vanhee | |
10. Kongolese catholic influences on Haitian popular Catholicism: a socio-historical exploration Terry Rey | |
Part IV. Central Africans in North America and the Caribbean: 11. 'Walk in the Feenda': West-Central Africans and the forest in the South Carolina-Georgia low country Ras Michael B. Brown | |
12. Liberated Central Africans in nineteenth century Guyana Monic Schuler | |
13. Combat and the crossing of the Kalunga Thomas J. Desch-Obi. |
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