"Fletcher Jones Foundation Imprint in Humanities." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The ring and the altar -- La Sociedad Africana, 1880-1940: Chacha Cairo among the dead and the Santos-Orisas -- Cucusa Saez and her children -- 1999: return -- A meal for the dead -- Opening -- Slaughter -- A bembe for San Lazaro-Babalu Aye -- 2005: loss -- A hole to fill -- Dear Elegua -- 2006: decay -- Zulia's oya -- 2009: deceit -- Voices of the dead -- 2012: prohibition -- Lazaro M -- Two bembes -- 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 orisas-the life-changing spirits at the center of Black Atlantic religious life. Based on twenty years of fieldwork, Todd Ramon Ochoa's masterful ethnography shows how orisa praise and everyday life have changed in revolutionary Cuba over two decades of economic hardship"-- Provided by publisher.
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