A Party for Lazarus

Six Generations of Ancestral Devotion in a Cuban Town
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-520-31598-3
Verlag: UCAL POD

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 495 g

Reihe: University of California Press

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ochoa, Todd Ramón

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Preface

PART ONE
1 • The Ring and the Altar
2 • La Sociedad Africana, 1880–1940: Chacha Cairo
among the Dead and the Santos-Orisás
3 • Cucusa Sáez and Her Children

PART TWO
4 • 1999: Return
5 • A Meal for the Dead
6 • Opening
7 • Slaughter
8 • A Bembé for San Lázaro–Babalú Ayé

PART THREE
9 • 2005: Loss
10 • A Hole to Fill
11 • Dear Elégua
12 • 2006: Decay
13 • Oyá

PART FOUR
14 • 2009: Deceit
15 • Voices of the Dead
16 • 2012: Prohibition
17 • Lázaro M.
18 • Two Bembés

PART FIVE
19 • 2014: Despair
20 • Sovereigns of Affliction
Epilogue • 2018: Recovery

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Todd Ramón Ochoa is a cultural anthropologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Society of the Dead: Quita Manaquita and Palo Praise in Cuba.