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A party for Lazarus : six generations of ancestral devotion in a Cuban town Todd Ramón Ochoa

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oakland, California University of California Press [2020]Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 314 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 0520974115
  • 9780520974111
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version: Party for LazarusDDC classification:
  • 299.6097291 23
LOC classification:
  • BL2532.S5 O24 2020eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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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
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)2375874

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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

"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