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Santeria Enthroned: Art, Ritual, and Innovation in Afro-Cuban Religion

The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 2004
Santeria Enthroned: Art, Ritual, and Innovation in Afro-Cuban Religion. By David H. Brown. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 413; 27 illustrations. $38.00 / £27.00 paper. David Brown's work on Santeria altars and material culture owes much to Thompson's cross-Atlantic, comparativist approach.1 Santeria Enthroned is ...
Solimar Otero, David H. Brown
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Ingesting indenture: Lydia Cabrera, yellow blindness, Chinese bodies, and the generation of Afro-Chinese religious knowledge

History of anthropology, 2023
This article explores the ways that Afro-Cuban religious texts called libretas and recorded oral divination narratives create entryways for Asian, especially Chinese, deities in the practice of Afro-Cuban religions, specifically the Yorùbá-derived orisha
Martin a. Tsang
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The Ontogeny of Dolls: Materiality, Affect, and Self in Afro-Cuban Espiritismo

Material Religion, 2019
Objects are fundamental components of cosmology in Afro-Cuban religions; they serve to represent, pay homage to, and feed a constellation of covetous spirits.
Diana Espírito Santo
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From the margins in: what an Afro-Cuban/Neopagan religious group can tell us about spiritual seeking in the United States

Culture and Religion
This article analyzes a religious space at the intersection of Afro-Cuban and Neopagan religions. It uses current methodological tools to study ‘spirituality’ – genealogy, sites of production, and effect on selfhood in modern life – to analyse an Afro ...
Eugenia Rainey
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Queering Black Atlantic Religions

, 2019
African American religious and black queer studies have engaged the subject of queered bodies historically and historiographically. As observed by Greene-Hayes, they have often rendered queer and transgender persons as devoid of a religion (Greene-Hayes ...
Roberto Strongman
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Afro-Cuban Religions in Cuban Literature

Abstract This chapter cites the influence of archival oralities of culture in correlation with Afro-Cuban religions featured in Cuban literature. It starts with a short overview of Manga-Mocha: cuento ñáñigo, representing Afro-Cuban themes in Spanish Caribbean literature. Even though the publication of Manga-Mocha was over a century ago,
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Cultural Imperialism, Afro-Cuban Religion, and Santiago's Failure in The Old Man and the Sea

The Hemingway Review, 2006
In The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway was profoundly affected by the Afro-Cuban religion of Santería and sympathetic to the idea that the sea was protected by saints and orishas. Secular faiths carry no remit in the novella and those who sail the Strait of Florida without ritual acknowledgement or acts of propitiation run the risk of being punished ...
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Rethinking the Revolution: Religion and Politics in Liuba Cid’s Afro-Cuban Adaptation of Fuenteovejuna

Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, 2020
AbstractThis essay discusses the contributions of theater director Liuba Cid and Cuban theater company Mephisto Teatro, highlighting the group’s Afro-Caribbean adaptation of Fuenteovejuna (2009).
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Willful Spirits and Weakened Flesh: Historicizing the Initiation Narrative in Afro-Cuban Religions

, 2013
Elizabeth Pérez
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Espírito Santo, Diana, and Anastasios Panagiotopoulos (eds.): Beyond Tradition, Beyond Invention - Cosmic Technologies and Creativity in Contemporary Afro-Cuban Religions

, 2017
B. Schmidt
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