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Party for Lazarus: Six Generations of Ancestral Devotion in a Cuban Town - Softcover

Ochoa, Todd Ramón

 
9780520315983: Party for Lazarus: Six Generations of Ancestral Devotion in a Cuban Town
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0520315987 ISBN 13: 9780520315983
Verlag: University of California Press, 2020

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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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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“A really wonderful book.”—Alma Guillermoprieto, author of Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution

“Todd Ramón Ochoa is a magnificent ethnographer. Monumental long-term research and beautifully anchored writing come together to tell a profound story about the legacy of African devotions in Cuba. Profound and compassionate, this is anthropology at its best.”—Ruth Behar, author of An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba and Lucky Broken Girl

“This is a masterpiece—an intensely researched ethnography, a meticulously observed chronicle of the daily mechanics of Cuban life in the humblest of circumstances, and a detailed drill down into the dynamics of spirit possession. Most of all, it’s a ripping good read that unfolds like a movie, although no director could capture all the nuance—or the spirit—that Ochoa gives us.”—Ned Sublette, author of Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo

“There is an elegance to Ochoa’s style that correlates to the elegance of the orisha. Ochoa does not apologize for Cuban religion (a term he doesn’t use), nor explain away the foibles of his subjects. Things are as they are, and this is Cuba in all its magnificent desperation.”—Donald J. Cosentino, editor of Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou and In Extremis: Death and Life in 21st-Century Haitian Art

“It will not be long before A Party for Lazarus is recognized as a classic anthropological text that teaches ethnography in an accessible and provocative way. Without compromising its intellectual heft, the book boasts a wonderful sense of dramatic pacing, suspense, and characterization.”—Elizabeth Pérez, author of Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions
 

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&;A really wonderful book.&;&;Alma Guillermoprieto, author of Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution

&;Todd Ramón Ochoa is a magnificent ethnographer. Monumental long-term research and beautifully anchored writing come together to tell a profound story about the legacy of African devotions in Cuba. Profound and compassionate, this is anthropology at its best.&;&;Ruth Behar, author of An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba and Lucky Broken Girl

&;This is a masterpiece&;an intensely researched ethnography, a meticulously observed chronicle of the daily mechanics of Cuban life in the humblest of circumstances, and a detailed drill down into the dynamics of spirit possession. Most of all, it&;s a ripping good read that unfolds like a movie, although no director could capture all the nuance&;or the spirit&;that Ochoa gives us.&;&;Ned Sublette, author of Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo

&;There is an elegance to Ochoa&;s style that correlates to the elegance of the orisha. Ochoa does not apologize for Cuban religion (a term he doesn&;t use), nor explain away the foibles of his subjects. Things are as they are, and this is Cuba in all its magnificent desperation.&;&;Donald J. Cosentino, editor of Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou and In Extremis: Death and Life in 21st-Century Haitian Art

&;It will not be long before A Party for Lazarus is recognized as a classic anthropological text that teaches ethnography in an accessible and provocative way. Without compromising its intellectual heft, the book boasts a wonderful sense of dramatic pacing, suspense, and characterization.&;&;Elizabeth Pérez, author of Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions
 

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Verlag
University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0520315987
ISBN 13 
9780520315983
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
335
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