Talking to the DeadTalking to the Dead is an ethnography of seven Gullah Geechee women from the South Carolina lowcountry. These women communicate with their ancestors through dreams, prayer, and visions and traditional crafts and customs, such as storytelling, basket making, and ecstatic singing in their churches. Like other Gullah Geechee women of the South Carolina and Georgia coasts, these women, through their active communication with the deceased, make choices and