Eric J Montgomery
Biographic Data
| ID | 138237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric J Montgomery |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric J |
| FAMILY NAME | Montgomery |
| SIGNATURE | MONTGOMERY E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0408-3352 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Anthropology of Peace and Justice Studies
The early 21st century has seen the largest protests for social justice in the history of the U.S., including the Women’s Marches of 2016–2020 as well as the Movement for Black Lives. Meanwhile, the Farmers’ Protest in India constitutes the largest and most expensive protest in the history of the world. Cases of state and political violence and genocide around the world have been addressed in transitional justice processes and peace agreements or…
Vodún/Vodu, Resistance, and North/South Relations in Undemocratic Togo
Vodún/Vodu have long served as a "way of life" and ontology for making sense of the world along the Bight of Benin, and in the Caribbean and Atlantic world where many slaves were brought. In Togo, the core ethnic groups, the Ewes, continue to turn inward toward Vodún/Vodu traditions as mechanisms of resistance against an autocratic and despotic rule of a northern regime. While the north remains underdeveloped regarding education, economics, and h…
Gothic "Voodoo" in Africa and Haiti
This paper seeks to historicize and demystify “Voodoo” religion in Africa and Haiti while also drawing comparisons and contrasts to concepts and themes related to “the gothic”. What is assumed to be “supernatural” or “paranormal” in Western and Gothic circles has long been a part of everyday reality for many peoples of African descent and devotees of Vodun in Western Africa and Vodou in Haiti. Tropes that are essential to realms of the gothic (su…
Religion and Faith in Africa: Confessions of an Animist by Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orabotor
Reviewed by: Religion and Faith in Africa: Confessions of an Animist by Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orabotor Eric J. Montgomery Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orabotor, Religion and Faith in Africa: Confessions of an Animist. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2018. Pp. 144. $22.00. This book is unique, timely, and invigorating on all levels. The idea of a Jesuit priest doing more than tolerating indigenous African religion, coupled with the term “animist” in the title, mad…
Conclusion: Shrine Ethnography and Global Vodu
This book offers an ethnography of the beliefs and practices of Vodu, as they relate to daily life in an ethnic Ewe fishing community on the coast of southern Togo
"Visual "Voodoo: Photo-Voice in Togo
This article is a photo-essay from a salah Gorovodu ceremony among Anlo-Ewes living in Southern Togo. It is a shared ethnographic project employing the photo-voice of three subjects and the anthropologist. The experiment was determined, produced and edited by three members of a local shrine and compiled during focus groups and feedback screenings in the summers of 2013–2014. Photo-voice and related shared approaches help to cast more light on a h…
Sacred Slaves: Tchamba Vodu in Southern Togo
This article ethnographically documents beliefs and practices surrounding Tchamba vodu among Anlo-Ewe vodu adepts in southern Togo. Mama Tchamba, or Grandmother Slave, is a religious order devoted to the veneration of the spirits of slaves purchased by the ancestors of Tchamba adepts and sold or kept in the community as wives and mothers. This article documents Tchamba vodu through the authors' interviews and observations in the community and sit…
Sacred Slaves: Tchamba Vodu in Southern Togo
This article ethnographically documents beliefs and practices surrounding Tchamba vodu among Anlo-Ewe vodu adepts in southern Togo. Mama Tchamba, or Grandmother Slave, is a religious order devoted to the veneration of the spirits of slaves purchased by the ancestors of Tchamba adepts and sold or kept in the community as wives and mothers. This article documents Tchamba vodu through the authors' interviews and observations in the community and sit…
Gothic "Voodoo" in Africa and Haiti
This paper seeks to historicize and demystify “Voodoo” religion in Africa and Haiti while also drawing comparisons and contrasts to concepts and themes related to “the gothic”. What is assumed to be “supernatural” or “paranormal” in Western and Gothic circles has long been a part of everyday reality for many peoples of African descent and devotees of Vodun in Western Africa and Vodou in Haiti. Tropes that are essential to realms of the gothic (su…
"Visual "Voodoo: Photo-Voice in Togo
This article is a photo-essay from a salah Gorovodu ceremony among Anlo-Ewes living in Southern Togo. It is a shared ethnographic project employing the photo-voice of three subjects and the anthropologist. The experiment was determined, produced and edited by three members of a local shrine and compiled during focus groups and feedback screenings in the summers of 2013–2014. Photo-voice and related shared approaches help to cast more light on a h…
Sacred Slaves: Tchamba Vodu in Southern Togo
This article ethnographically documents beliefs and practices surrounding Tchamba vodu among Anlo-Ewe vodu adepts in southern Togo. Mama Tchamba, or Grandmother Slave, is a religious order devoted to the veneration of the spirits of slaves purchased by the ancestors of Tchamba adepts and sold or kept in the community as wives and mothers. This article documents Tchamba vodu through the authors' interviews and observations in the community and sit…
Conclusion: Shrine Ethnography and Global Vodu
This book offers an ethnography of the beliefs and practices of Vodu, as they relate to daily life in an ethnic Ewe fishing community on the coast of southern Togo
"Visual "Voodoo: Photo-Voice in Togo
This article is a photo-essay from a salah Gorovodu ceremony among Anlo-Ewes living in Southern Togo. It is a shared ethnographic project employing the photo-voice of three subjects and the anthropologist. The experiment was determined, produced and edited by three members of a local shrine and compiled during focus groups and feedback screenings in the summers of 2013–2014. Photo-voice and related shared approaches help to cast more light on a h…
Gothic "Voodoo" in Africa and Haiti
This paper seeks to historicize and demystify “Voodoo” religion in Africa and Haiti while also drawing comparisons and contrasts to concepts and themes related to “the gothic”. What is assumed to be “supernatural” or “paranormal” in Western and Gothic circles has long been a part of everyday reality for many peoples of African descent and devotees of Vodun in Western Africa and Vodou in Haiti. Tropes that are essential to realms of the gothic (su…
Religion and Faith in Africa: Confessions of an Animist by Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orabotor
Reviewed by: Religion and Faith in Africa: Confessions of an Animist by Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orabotor Eric J. Montgomery Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orabotor, Religion and Faith in Africa: Confessions of an Animist. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2018. Pp. 144. $22.00. This book is unique, timely, and invigorating on all levels. The idea of a Jesuit priest doing more than tolerating indigenous African religion, coupled with the term “animist” in the title, mad…
Vodún/Vodu, Resistance, and North/South Relations in Undemocratic Togo
Vodún/Vodu have long served as a "way of life" and ontology for making sense of the world along the Bight of Benin, and in the Caribbean and Atlantic world where many slaves were brought. In Togo, the core ethnic groups, the Ewes, continue to turn inward toward Vodún/Vodu traditions as mechanisms of resistance against an autocratic and despotic rule of a northern regime. While the north remains underdeveloped regarding education, economics, and h…
Anthropology of Peace and Justice Studies
The early 21st century has seen the largest protests for social justice in the history of the U.S., including the Women’s Marches of 2016–2020 as well as the Movement for Black Lives. Meanwhile, the Farmers’ Protest in India constitutes the largest and most expensive protest in the history of the world. Cases of state and political violence and genocide around the world have been addressed in transitional justice processes and peace agreements or…
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