"When It's All Over: African American Homegoing Celebrations"University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1996 - 214 pages |
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... common elements of African American cultural and religious heritage . These two funerals along with others I attended as I carried out this 34Mbiti , 2 . research , discussed in relation to literature on African funerals 15.
... common elements of African American cultural and religious heritage . These two funerals along with others I attended as I carried out this 34Mbiti , 2 . research , discussed in relation to literature on African funerals 15.
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... carrying the corpse , with women coming behind " 48 carry out the functions of the ceremony while celebrating a loved one's last rites . Death for Africans is seen as an end only in the sense that a person has moved from the physical ...
... carrying the corpse , with women coming behind " 48 carry out the functions of the ceremony while celebrating a loved one's last rites . Death for Africans is seen as an end only in the sense that a person has moved from the physical ...
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... carried out in the creative form of a final rites of passage ceremony which is the homegoing celebration . Paris ... carrying the corpse , with the women coming behind , " 81 a tradition that is still observed . This belief was adhered ...
... carried out in the creative form of a final rites of passage ceremony which is the homegoing celebration . Paris ... carrying the corpse , with the women coming behind , " 81 a tradition that is still observed . This belief was adhered ...
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According African American funeral African American homegoing African and African African worldview theology American homegoing celebrations American homegoing services American homegoing traditions Annie Mae Johnson Anthony Heilbut attire belief system bereavement Biblical Black Church Black preacher Brown County burial casket ceremony Charles Durant Christian African Americans Coevolution Quarterly color continuity of African Cornel West Crissman cultural continuity cultural practices deceased demonstrative expression display dress Elaine Nichols emotions enslaved Africans Eric Lincoln eulogy Euro-American European family and friends family members Felder final funeral home Funeral Traditions Gospel music grandmother grandmother's hair wreaths Heaven honor Jindra John Mbiti living loved Masamba and Kalish Mbiti writes Mother Evans mourners mourning Orleans Jazz Funerals performative elements Precious Lord presence of family processional religion represented ritual Ron Brown singing Sis Fannie Sis Fannie's slavery song South Carolina spiritual spoken word survivors Sybil Kein Take My Hand wake Washington West African wore Yoruba