On Leaving and Joining Africanness Through Religion
The 'Black Caribs' Across Multiple Diasporic Horizons
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3933258 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Christopher Johnson (0000-0002-7048-2389, 1University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, 505 S. State St./4700 Haven, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045, USA) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 174-211 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religion in Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4200 • E-ISSN: 1570-0666 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/157006607x188911 |
| OpenAlex | W1991246567 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 29 |
Garifuna religion is derived from a confluence of Amerindian, African and European antecedents. For the Garifuna in Central America, the spatial focus of authentic religious practice has for over two centuries been that of their former homeland and site of ethnogenesis, the island of St Vincent. It is from St Vincent that the ancestors return, through spirit possession, to join with their living descendants in ritual events. During the last generation, about a third of the population migrated to the US, especially to New York City. This departure created a new diasporic horizon, as the Central American villages left behind now acquired their own aura of ancestral fidelity and religious power. Yet New-York-based Garifuna are now giving attention to the African components of their story of origin, to a degree that has not occurred in homeland villages of Honduras. This essay considers the notion of 'leaving' and 'joining' the African diaspora by examining religious components of Garifuna social formation on St Vincent, the deportation to Central America, and contemporary processes of Africanization being initiated in New York
Archaeology · Deportation · Diaspora · Ethnic group · Ethnogenesis · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · History of religions · Homeland · Immigration · Political science · Population · Sociology · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Demography · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
Ethnography and the Historical Imagination
The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Black Atlantic Religion
New diasporas
The Myth of the Negro Past
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400–1800
Wild Majesty
Detached from Their Homeland
Flexible Citizenship
Islands in the City
Black Identities
The Igbo and their neighbours during the era of the Atlantic slave-trade
Ethnographical Notes on the Black Carib (Garif)
National Geographic
Mosquito Coast
Argument across the Portuguese-Speaking World
The Black Atlantic
The Negro Church in America
Introduction
Diasporas in Modern Societies
Rethinking Diaspora (s)
Defining and Studying the Modern African Diaspora
Black Carib Domestic Organization in Historical Perspective
Memories of the Slave Trade
Women and the Ancestors
The Context of Diaspora
Negotiating race and place in the Garifuna Diaspora
| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2023 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |