9780822356745-0822356740-Talking to the Dead: Religion, Music, and Lived Memory among Gullah/Geechee Women

Talking to the Dead: Religion, Music, and Lived Memory among Gullah/Geechee Women

ISBN-13: 9780822356745
ISBN-10: 0822356740
Author: LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 304 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780822356745
ISBN-10: 0822356740
Author: LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 304 pages

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Talking to the Dead: Religion, Music, and Lived Memory among Gullah/Geechee Women (ISBN-13: 9780822356745 and ISBN-10: 0822356740), written by authors LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant, was published by Duke University Press Books in 2014. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Talking to the Dead: Religion, Music, and Lived Memory among Gullah/Geechee Women (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $7.62.

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Talking to the Dead is an ethnography of seven Gullah/Geechee women from the South Carolina lowcountry. These women communicate with their ancestors through dreams, prayer, and visions and traditional crafts and customs, such as storytelling, basket making, and ecstatic singing in their churches. Like other Gullah/Geechee women of the South Carolina and Georgia coasts, these women, through their active communication with the deceased, make choices and receive guidance about how to live out their faith and engage with the living. LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant emphasizes that this communication affirms the women's spiritual faith—which seamlessly integrates Christian and folk traditions—and reinforces their position as powerful culture keepers within Gullah/Geechee society. By looking in depth at this long-standing spiritual practice, Manigault-Bryant highlights the subversive ingenuity that lowcountry inhabitants use to thrive spiritually and to maintain a sense of continuity with the past.
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