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Santería enthroned

art, ritual, and innovation in an Afro-Cuban religion

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Santería enthroned
David H. Brown, David H. Brown
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An edition of Santería enthroned (2003)

Santería enthroned

art, ritual, and innovation in an Afro-Cuban religion

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Ever since its emergence in colonial-era Cuba, Afro-Cuban Santería (or Lucumi) has displayed a complex dynamic of continuity and change in its institutions, rituals, and iconography. In this book, David H. Brown 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. Focusing on the royal throne as a potent metaphor in Santería belief and practice, Brown shows how negotiations among ideologically competing interests have shaped the religion's symbols, rituals, and institutions from the nineteenth century to the present. Rich case studies of change in Cuba and the United States, including a New Jersey temple and South Carolina's Oyotunji Village, reveal patterns of innovation similar to those found among rival Yoruba kingdoms in Nigeria. Throughout, Brown argues for a theoretical perspective on culture as a field of potential strategies and "usable pasts" that actors draw upon to craft new forms and identities-a perspective that will be invaluable to all students of the African Diaspora

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Santería enthroned: art, ritual, and innovation in an Afro-Cuban religion
2003, University of Chicago Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction
pt. I. Institutional and ritual innovation
1. Black royalty : new social frameworks and remodeled iconographies in nineteenth-century Havana
2. From Cabildo de Nación 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 religious cosmology, hierarchy, and authority
pt. 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 Cabildo, 1853
Appendix 2. Irene Wright's description of her visit to an "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 practice
Appendix 5. Calendar of Oricha and Saint Feast Days
Appendix 6. Oral data from fieldwork : interviews, personal communications, and correspondence.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Library of Congress
BL2532.S3 B76 2003, BL2532.S3B76 2003

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Pagination
xx, 413 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
413

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OL15574797M
ISBN 10
0226076105, 0226076091
LCCN
2002073564
OCLC/WorldCat
50090014
Goodreads
883730

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