"When It's All Over: African American Homegoing Celebrations"University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1996 - 214 pages |
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... forms mixed with European burial customs that are shaped by a distinctive Afro - Christianity . The catalog highlights articles describing the cultural continuity of West African beliefs and burial practices among South Carolina ...
... forms mixed with European burial customs that are shaped by a distinctive Afro - Christianity . The catalog highlights articles describing the cultural continuity of West African beliefs and burial practices among South Carolina ...
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... forms such as the memory jug . I was able to view a display of hair wreaths and memory jugs at the South Carolina State Museum while conducting research with Elaine Nichols . According to " Hair Wreaths : Funeral and Mourning Custom ...
... forms such as the memory jug . I was able to view a display of hair wreaths and memory jugs at the South Carolina State Museum while conducting research with Elaine Nichols . According to " Hair Wreaths : Funeral and Mourning Custom ...
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... forms of Black intellectual activity lack . " 118 The Black preacher and the spoken word he / she espouses is grounded in the orality of language . The personification of language as represented by the African worldview theology aid the ...
... forms of Black intellectual activity lack . " 118 The Black preacher and the spoken word he / she espouses is grounded in the orality of language . The personification of language as represented by the African worldview theology aid the ...
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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