Insignificant Things Cheers and cultural identity

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Insignificant Things Cheers and cultural identityIn Insignificant Things 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