Also known as: African cosmology, African cosmologies, ancestral cosmology
Last updated: April 23, 2026
Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora is especially important here because it shows why death at sea was not only tragic but cosmologically catastrophic. Burial, mourning, offerings, and the relation between land and ancestors helped complete the journey of the dead. Oceanic death threatened that process by withholding earth, ritual completion, and the possibility of return.
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