Of Medicine Men and Marabouts: The Transference of Islamic Sufi Philosophies to Slave Communities in the Lower South
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Authors
Douglas, Kelcie Spencer
Issue Date
2009
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Thesis
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en_US
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While studying abroad in Senegal I was given the opportunity to experience a
culture and religion very different from my own. However upon my return to the States I
realized that in life, connections are made that come around full-circle. I ended up in
Charleston, South Carolina and witnessed for myself how West African traditions were
brought to the Lower South. Not only was I taken back to Senegal through pieces of the
low country landscape yet there is a remarkable degree of contingency between the
artistry and craftsmanship in Senegalese ironwork, basketry and cuisine and the African
American culture still living in the coastal areas of South Carolina and Georgia. With
such similarities, how could a relationship between the culture of the United States and
that of West Africa be denied? In Senegal, the people always referred to me as their
"sister." Now I understand the meaning.
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viii, 58 p.
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