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Ancestor Worship Homecoming: The Story of African-American Farmers by Charlene Gilbert, A photographic essay which offers a striking and moving tribute to African-American farmers. This is the companion book to Gilbert's PBS documentary, HOMECOMING. Homecoming traces the history of black farmers from Reconstruction to the present, as they struggle to survive today. Homecoming pays tribute not only to the devastating losses they have suffered throughout the century, but also to the legacy of hope that endures in the story of African-Americans working the land. "Revisiting the unbearable hardships encountered by my great-grandparents, grandparents, and parents as they sought to survive the inhuman sharecropping system of the post-Civil War South--a system in many ways more brutal than slavery--my heart breaks again. But reading Homecoming's account of our ancestors' determined humility, obdurate courage, and fierce pride in and love of the land, my heart is healed. I see why there is such a thing as ancestor worship. I could not love my sharecropping ancestors more if I had created them myself. That black Southerners still love nature and revere the earth is the legacy of a people whose innate elegance and dignity was always expressed in essentials." --Alice Walker "An extraordinary gift. . . . A moving, lyrical, and important history: a tale of land, labor, love, and loss." --Farah Jasmine Griffin "Moving, highly informative, and valuable.
Lair Of The White Worm, The (Widescreen) Hugh Grant, Amanda Donohoe and Catherine Oxenberg star in the mix of heart-stopping horror and campy humor. James D'Ampton (Grant) returns to his country castle in England. Legend has it that James' distant ancestor once slayed the local dragon--a monstrous white worm with a fondness for the sweet flesh of virgins. The young Lord dismisses the legend as folklore, until archaeology student, Angus Flint, unearths a massive reptilian skull and the ancient worship site of a pagan snake god on James' property. When James' virtuous girlfriend, Eve (Oxenburg), suddenly disappears, he and Angus set out to investigate the foreboding cavern said to be the worm's lair, where a centuries-old mystery begins to uncoil.
Ancestor worship - Ancestor worship (拜祖), also ancestor veneration (敬祖), is a religious practice based on the belief that one's ancestors possess supernatural powers. All cultures attach ritual significance to the passing of loved ones, but this is not equivalent to ancestor worship. Religion in the Mississippian culture - The ancestor worship mississippian cult mediated between the two dominant ones, the Chiefly Warfare cult and the Earth/Fertility cult. Evidence of an ancestor cult comes from the Great Mortuary of the Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma, a massive funerary deposit in the core or the mound, built in the early 1400s. Religion in Papua New Guinea - Religion in Papua New Guinea is predominantly Christian with traditional animist and ancestor worship still found in some places See also Religious life of the Korowa. Meyer Fortes - ... African-born anthropologist Meyer Fortes (1906-1983) is best known for his work among the Tallensi and Ashanti in Ghana. Originally trained in psychology, Fortes employed the notion of the "person" into his structural-functional analyses of kinship, the family, and ancestor worship setting a standard for studies on African social organization. ancestorworship
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