A Party for Lazarus

Six Generations of Ancestral Devotion in a Cuban Town

von Todd Ramón Ochoa

336 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A Party for Lazarus is the story of a Cuban family, six generations removed from slavery, struggling to honor its ancestors amid changing fortunes and a crumbling state. This intimate intergenerational account centers on an annual feast celebrating ancestors and orisás--the life-changing spirits at the heart 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.

• Reihe: University of California Press
• ISBN: 9780520315983
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.05.2020
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: UCAL POD