TY  - BOOK
AU  - Otero,Solimar
TI  - Archives of conjure: stories of the dead in Afrolatinx cultures 
T2  - Gender, theory, and religion
SN  - 9780231550765
AV  - BF1242.C37 A73 2020
U1  - 133.909729 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Spiritualism
KW  - Caribbean Area
KW  - Afro-Caribbean religions
KW  - Black people
KW  - Religious life
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - Spirits
KW  - Women and spiritualism
KW  - Material culture
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Water
KW  - Spiritisme
KW  - Caraïbes (Région)
KW  - Religions afro-antillaises
KW  - Personnes noires
KW  - Vie religieuse
KW  - Esprits
KW  - Femmes et spiritisme
KW  - Culture matérielle
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Eau
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Caribbean & Latin American
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Ethnic & Tribal
KW  - fast
KW  - Religious life and customs
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Archives of conjure -- Residual transcriptions -- Crossings -- Flows -- Sirens -- Conclusion: Espuma del mar, sea foam
N2  - "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"--
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