{"product_id":"insignificant-things-9781478017158","title":"Insignificant Things","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eInsignificant Things\u003c\/i\u003e Matthew Francis Rarey traces the history of the African-associated amulets that enslaved and other marginalized people carried as tools of survival in the Black Atlantic world from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Often considered visually benign by white Europeans, these amulet pouches, commonly known as “mandingas,” were used across Africa, Brazil, and Portugal and contained myriad objects, from herbs and Islamic prayers to shells and coins. Drawing on Arabic-language narratives from the West African Sahel, the archives of the Portuguese Inquisition, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European travel and merchant accounts of the West African Coast, and early nineteenth-century Brazilian police records, Rarey shows how mandingas functioned as portable archives of their makers’ experiences of enslavement, displacement, and diaspora. He presents them as examples of the visual culture of enslavement and critical to conceptualiz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Significance, Survival, and Silence  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Labels  31\u003cbr\u003e 2. Contents  72\u003cbr\u003e 3. Markings  124\u003cbr\u003e 4. Revolts  171\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue  208\u003cbr\u003e Notes  217\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited  249\u003cbr\u003e Index  275","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409005355351,"sku":"9781478017158","price":70.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478017158.jpg?v=1730505059","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/insignificant-things-9781478017158","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}