Diaspora Conversions

Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa

By: Paul Christopher Johnson

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Paperback | 3 September 2007 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
What Is Diasporic Religion?	p. 30
"These Sons of Freedom": Black Caribs Licross Three Diasporic Horizons	p. 60
Shamans at Work in the Villages	p. 99
Shamans at Work in New York	p. 125
Ritual in the Homeland; Or, Making the Land "Home" in Ritual	p. 146
Ritual in the Bronx	p. 186
Finding Africa in New York	p. 205
Conclusion	p. 227
Trajectory of a Moving Object, the Caldero	p. 247
Notes	p. 251
Glossary	p. 287
Bibliography	p. 291
Index	p. 319
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