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...Terran Deities<subtitle>Oil, Fires, Fevers</subtitle> Part 3 brings ancient deities of fires, oil, and fevers into contemporary discussions of climate change. It centers the works of the Iranian American artist Morehshin Allahyari, whose sculptures replicate ancient deities—some of which have...

... sonic theology noise making deities loud worship ritual silence ...

... deep time ancient Mesopotamian deities oil as ancestral kin Morehshin Al-lahyari Iraq ...

... In the world of illegal drug trafficking, rampant homicides, and mass incarceration, Mexicans have turned to new spiritual figures, some based on Afro-Caribbean deities, to find hope. This chapter describes the deities and their adherents, in particular the foot soldiers of the drug cartels...

... that deities in the ocean and volcanoes were related to the sultans. Political power was made possible through these associations with chthonic deities. The theory of plate tectonics mirrored this. It was based on a radical shift in geological thought to understanding the exchanges between oceans and volcanoes...

..., the close relationship among the people, the land, and deities, and the political acts that stem from those; and the commitment to teaching the language, history, culture, and law from Kanaka epistemologies to the youth of their day and to us. Hawaiʻi Hawaiian language Joseph Kānepuʻu Joseph...

... Legion of Christ In the world of illegal drug trafficking, rampant homicides, and mass incarceration, Mexicans have turned to new spiritual figures, some based on Afro-Caribbean deities, to find hope. This chapter describes the deities and their adherents, in particular the foot soldiers...

... religious practices of both groups also signal attempts to sacralize space and to enter into a relationship with nonhuman actors. In both cases, sound can be an agent of spiritual contamination or elevation, a force for communal well-being or distress. sonic theology noise making deities loud...

... Cubans’ performances of royalty (carnival kings and queens) and waged “anti-witchcraft” campaigns targeting their home ceremonies for regal orichas (deities) of Regla de Ocha, which was then spreading among blacks in Santiago’s poorer neighborhoods and attracting the sympathetic interest of afrocubanista...

... the voice of a West African deity, an instance of the indexicality of voice in historical sound recordings. Kudjabo volunteered for the Belgian army and recorded drum language in a POW camp. He also delivered a short dialogue, which speaks of the destruction of livelihoods in his home region after...

... Chapter 3 looks at embodiment and disembodiment in the articulation of black women’s layered visibility. This chapter looks at the positioning of physical prowess in representations of American abolitionist Harriet Tubman and Brazilian slave deity Blessed Anastácia. I argue that certain...

... purged Cuban streets of black Cubans’ performances of royalty (carnival kings and queens) and waged “anti-witchcraft” campaigns targeting their home ceremonies for regal orichas (deities) of Regla de Ocha, which was then spreading among blacks in Santiago’s poorer neighborhoods and attracting...