| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 314 pages) |
| Contents |
The ring and the altar -- La Sociedad Africana, 1880-1940: Chacha Cairo among the dead and the Santos-Orisás -- Cucusa Sáez and her children -- 1999: return -- A meal for the dead -- Opening -- Slaughter -- A bembé for San Lázaro-Babalú Ayé -- 2005: loss -- A hole to fill -- Dear Elégua -- 2006: decay -- Zulia's oyá -- 2009: deceit -- Voices of the dead -- 2012: prohibition -- Lázaro M -- Two bembés -- 2014: despair -- Sovereigns of affliction -- Epilogue: 2018: recovery |
| Summary |
"A Party for Lazarus is the story of a Cuban family, six generations removed from slavery, struggling to honor their ancestors amid changing fortunes and a crumbling state. It is an intimate portrait of an intergenerational family saga involving the future of an annual feast to celebrate ancestors and orisás-the life-changing spirits at the center 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Babalúaiyé (Afro-Caribbean deity)
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| SUBJECT |
Babalúaiyé (Afro-Caribbean deity) fast |
| Subject |
Fasts and feasts -- Orisha religion -- Social aspects
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Fasts and feasts -- Social aspects -- Cuba
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Ancestor worship -- Cuba
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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Ancestor worship
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Cuba
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019049796 |
| ISBN |
0520974115 |
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9780520974111 |
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