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| ISBN: | 9780520940215
0520940210
9780520249691 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520249690 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520249707 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520249704 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781435611368
1435611365
1433709023
9781433709029
1282772147
9781282772144
9786612772146
661277214X
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-317) and index.
English.
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| Summary: | 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 emer.
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| Other form: | Print version: Diaspora conversions Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007. 9780520249691 (cloth : alk. paper)
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