Description: Ethnographic study of life and ritual in an African American Yoruba revivalist community in South Carolina and its complex relation to Nigerian Yoruba identity.
Review Quotes: "In this highly original analysis, Kamari Maxine Clarke shows how the apparent stability of 'tradition' at different moments in time has been the product of processes of innovation made both necessary and possible during particular phases of economic limitation and religious and political oppression in the long historical stream of 'black transatlantic' cultural production."--Brackette F. Williams, author of Stains on My Name, War in My Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle