Title Archives of conjure : stories of the dead in Afrolatinx cultures / Solimar Otero

Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource Series Gender, theory, and religion Gender, theory, and religion. Contents Introduction: Archives of conjure -- Residual transcriptions -- Crossings -- Flows -- Sirens -- Conclusion: Espuma del mar, sea foam Summary "In Afrolatinx religious practices such as Cuban Espiritismo, Puerto Rican Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé, the dead tell stories. Communicating with and through mediums' bodies, they give advice, make requests, and propose future rituals, creating a living archive that is coproduced by the dead. In this book, Solimar Otero explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation of material culture. By examining spirit mediumship through a Caribbean cross-cultural poetics, she shows how divinities and ancestors serve as active agents in shaping the experiences of gender, sexuality, and race. Otero argues that what she calls archives of conjure are produced through residual transcriptions or reverberations of the stories of the dead whose archives are stitched, beaded, smoked, and washed into official and unofficial repositories. She investigates how sites like the ocean, rivers, and institutional archives create connected contexts for unlocking the spatial activation of residual transcriptions. Drawing on over ten years of archival research and fieldwork in Cuba, Otero centers the storytelling practices of Afrolatinx women and LGBTQ spiritual practitioners alongside Caribbean literature and performance. Archives of Conjure offers vital new perspectives on ephemerality, temporality, and material culture, unraveling undertheorized questions about how spirits shape communities of practice, ethnography, literature, and history and revealing the deeply connected nature of art, scholarship, and worship"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 12, 2020) Subject Spiritualism -- Caribbean Area Afro-Caribbean cults. Black people -- Religious life -- Caribbean Area Black people -- Caribbean Area -- Rites and ceremonies Spirits. Women and spiritualism -- Caribbean Area Material culture -- Religious aspects. Water -- Religious aspects. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American. RELIGION -- Ethnic & Tribal. Afro-Caribbean cults Black people -- Religious life Black people -- Rites and ceremonies Material culture -- Religious aspects Spirits Spiritualism Water -- Religious aspects Women and spiritualism SUBJECT Caribbean Area -- Religious life and customs Subject Caribbean Area Form Electronic book LC no. 2019038652 ISBN 9780231550765 0231550766 0231194323 9780231194327 0231194331 9780231194334

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