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Santurismo: The Commodification of Santería and the Touristic Value of Afro-Cuban Derived Religions in Cuba [PDF]
, 2018 Santurismo (Santería + Turismo) refers to the popular formula of Afro-Cuban religions and tourism and initially served the Cuban government in the 1960s to promote Santería as a folkloric product of Cuban identity through staged performances in touristic surroundings.
Julia Rausenberger
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Perspectivas Afro, 2022 In Cuba, New Age and Neo-Pagan healing and spiritual practices (reiki, so-called groups of meditation and « energy », neo-shamanism, wicca, etc.) are today appropriated in connection with endogenous practices. Considering that Afro-Cuban religions are historical instances of religious syncretism, one might be tempted to see there no more than a ...
Emma Gobin
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Miguel Barnet, Afro-Cuban Religions [PDF]
Archives de sciences sociales des religions, 2003 Erwan Dianteill
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Afro‐Cuban Religion, Ethnobotany and Healthcare in the Context of Global Political and Economic Change [PDF]
Bulletin of Latin American Research, 2008 ‘Globalisation’, driven by neoliberal‐based policies, can be seen to have significant impacts on ethnobotanical practices, particularly through the commercialisation of traditional knowledge and rise in identity‐based social movements. Despite its relative political and economic isolation in comparison to more ‘neoliberalised’ areas of Latin America ...
E. Moret
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Aesthetic Emotions in Afro-Cuban Ritual Stagecraft
MODOS: Revista de História da Arte, 2022 This article focuses on the emotional impacts of aesthetics in Afro-Cuban religions, with particular regard to the consultation séances organised by ritual specialists of Palo Monte, Santería, Ifá and Espiritismo to resolve their clients’ ailments.
Katerina Kerestetzi
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Writing Orisha Music: Text, Tradition, and Creativity in Afro-Cuban Liturgy
Religions, 2021 This essay examines the flow of music associated with orisha—anthropomorphic deities—across networks defined variously by art, scholarship, folklore, and religion, all of which overlap and nourish each other. Transmitted via oral tradition, written texts,
David Font-Navarrete
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Towards a new merging: Spiritism and the Afro-Puerto Rican religious culture [PDF]
Horizontes AntropológicosOn the basis of the spiritistic doctrine of Allan Kardec, various local religions have been created in Latin America in combination with different belief systems.
Bettina E. Schmidt
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Les Cahiers ALHIM, 2018 This article ponders on the Afro-Cuban work of three composers of the Cuban diaspora at the turn of the century. For this, we turn our attention to the dynamics of des/re-territorialization music-identities that reveal their compositional discourses ...
Iván César Morales Flores
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Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2018 This article proposes an examination of the role of spatiality in the construction of Afro-Cuban religious plurality. The question at the heart of its problematic is the following: how can different religions coexist within the same space, and ...
Katerina Kerestetzi
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Chinese Religions and the Cuban Revolution
Poligrafi, 2022 The issue of religious practices within the Chinese diaspora in Cuba is increasingly debated within Chinese studies in Latin America. As the Chinese and African diasporas in Cuba have intermingled ethnically, their religious practices have historically ...
M. M. Kosec
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