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Tambú: Curaçao's African-Caribbean Ritual and the Politics of Memory

This book marks the culmination of a particularly complex and extensive period (fifteen years) of field research that required intensive ethnography. Numerous trips to Curaçao over an extended period were necessary to gain entry into this exceptionally closed and private community, and to collect, notate and analyse extensive interview and archival data (ranging from slave ship logs to colonial church sermons). Substantial time was required to draw informed conclusions about Afro-Curaçaoan history and memory-making, and to write a comprehensive text that followed Tambú from slavery to the present-day and placed Tambú’s diverse ritual practices within Curaçao’s own complex, ever-changing society.