TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ochoa,Todd Ramón
TI  - A party for Lazarus: six generations of ancestral devotion in a Cuban town
SN  - 0520974115
AV  - BL2532.S5 O24 2020eb
U1  - 299.6097291 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Babalúaiyé
KW  - Fasts and feasts
KW  - Orisha religion
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Cuba
KW  - Ancestor worship
KW  - Morts
KW  - Culte
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
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