Party for Lazarus: Six Generations of Ancestral Devotion in a Cuban Town - Couverture souple

Ochoa, Todd Ramón

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520315987 ISBN 13 : 9780520315983

Editeur : University of California Press, 2020

Synopsis

A Party for Lazarus is the story of a Cuban family, six generations removed from slavery, struggling to honor its ancestors amid changing fortunes and a crumbling state. This intimate intergenerational account centers on an annual feast celebrating ancestors and orisás--the life-changing spirits at the heart of Black Atlantic religious life. Based on twenty years of fieldwork, Todd Ramón Ochoa's masterful ethnography shows how orisá praise and everyday life have changed in revolutionary Cuba over two decades of economic hardship.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Todd Ramón Ochoa is a cultural anthropologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Society of the Dead: Quita Manaquita and Palo Praise in Cuba.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520315987
• ISBN 13: 9780520315983
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 335
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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