David H. Brown

Santería Enthroned (eBook, ePUB)

Art, Ritual, and Innovation in an Afro-Cuban Religion

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 2003 Santería Enthroned combines art, history, cultural anthropology, and ethnohistory to show how Africans and their descendants have developed novel forms of religious practice in the face of relentless oppression.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 454
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000124378
• Artikelnr.: 62801370

Autorenporträt

David H. Brown

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part I:
Institutional and Ritual Innovation 1. Black Royalty: New Social Frameworks
and Remodeled Iconographies in Nineteenth-Century Havana 2. From Cabildo de
Nacíon to Casa-Templo: The New Lucumí, Institutional Reform, and the
Shifting Location of Cultural Authenticity 3. Myths of the Yoruba Past and
Innovations of the Lucumí Present: The Narrative Production of Cosmology,
Authority, and Ritual Variation Part II: Iconographic Innovation 4. Royal
Iconography and the Modern Lucumí Initiation 5. "The Palace of the Obá
Lucumí" and the "Creole Taste": Innovations in Iconography and Meaning
Conclusion Appendix 1: Fredrika Bremer's Description of a Sunday Afternoon
Drumming in a Havana Lucumí Calbido, 1853 Appendix 2: Irene Wright's
Description of Her Visit to "African Cabildo" in El Cerro, 1910 Appendix 3:
The "Regular" Ifá-Centric Initiation versus the Ocha-Centric Initiation
Appendix 4: The Oriate's Counternarrative to Ifa-Centric Ocha Practive
Appendix 5: Calendar of Oricha and Saint Feasts Days Appendix 6: Oral Data
from Fieldwork: Interviews, Personal Communications and Correspondence
Notes Glossary Works Cited Index