The Resource Archives of conjure : stories of the dead in Afrolatinx cultures, Solimar Otero
Archives of conjure : stories of the dead in Afrolatinx cultures, Solimar Otero
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The item Archives of conjure : stories of the dead in Afrolatinx cultures, Solimar Otero represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
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- Summary
- "In Afrolatinx religious practices such as Cuban Espiritismo, Puerto Rican Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé, the dead tell stories. Communicating with and through mediums' bodies, they give advice, make requests, and propose future rituals, creating a living archive that is coproduced by the dead. In this book, Solimar Otero explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation of material culture. By examining spirit mediumship through a Caribbean cross-cultural poetics, she shows how divinities and ancestors serve as active agents in shaping the experiences of gender, sexuality, and race. Otero argues that what she calls archives of conjure are produced through residual transcriptions or reverberations of the stories of the dead whose archives are stitched, beaded, smoked, and washed into official and unofficial repositories. She investigates how sites like the ocean, rivers, and institutional archives create connected contexts for unlocking the spatial activation of residual transcriptions. Drawing on over ten years of archival research and fieldwork in Cuba, Otero centers the storytelling practices of Afrolatinx women and LGBTQ spiritual practitioners alongside Caribbean literature and performance. Archives of Conjure offers vital new perspectives on ephemerality, temporality, and material culture, unraveling undertheorized questions about how spirits shape communities of practice, ethnography, literature, and history and revealing the deeply connected nature of art, scholarship, and worship"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xv, 248 pages
- Contents
-
- Introduction: Archives of conjure
- Residual transcriptions
- Crossings
- Flows
- Sirens
- Conclusion: Espuma del mar, sea-foam
- Isbn
- 9780231194334
- Label
- Archives of conjure : stories of the dead in Afrolatinx cultures
- Title
- Archives of conjure
- Title remainder
- stories of the dead in Afrolatinx cultures
- Statement of responsibility
- Solimar Otero
- Subject
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- Blacks -- Caribbean Area -- Rites and ceremonies
- Blacks -- Religious life
- Blacks -- Religious life -- Caribbean Area
- Blacks -- Rites and ceremonies
- Caribbean Area
- Caribbean Area -- Religious life and customs
- Material culture -- Religious aspects
- Material culture -- Religious aspects
- Spirits
- Spirits
- Spiritualism
- Spiritualism -- Caribbean Area
- Water -- Religious aspects
- Water -- Religious aspects
- Women and spiritualism
- Women and spiritualism -- Caribbean Area
- Afro-Caribbean cults
- Afro-Caribbean cults
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In Afrolatinx religious practices such as Cuban Espiritismo, Puerto Rican Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé, the dead tell stories. Communicating with and through mediums' bodies, they give advice, make requests, and propose future rituals, creating a living archive that is coproduced by the dead. In this book, Solimar Otero explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation of material culture. By examining spirit mediumship through a Caribbean cross-cultural poetics, she shows how divinities and ancestors serve as active agents in shaping the experiences of gender, sexuality, and race. Otero argues that what she calls archives of conjure are produced through residual transcriptions or reverberations of the stories of the dead whose archives are stitched, beaded, smoked, and washed into official and unofficial repositories. She investigates how sites like the ocean, rivers, and institutional archives create connected contexts for unlocking the spatial activation of residual transcriptions. Drawing on over ten years of archival research and fieldwork in Cuba, Otero centers the storytelling practices of Afrolatinx women and LGBTQ spiritual practitioners alongside Caribbean literature and performance. Archives of Conjure offers vital new perspectives on ephemerality, temporality, and material culture, unraveling undertheorized questions about how spirits shape communities of practice, ethnography, literature, and history and revealing the deeply connected nature of art, scholarship, and worship"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- LBSOR/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Otero, Solimar
- Dewey number
- 133.909729
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BF1242.C37
- LC item number
- O84 2020
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Gender, theory, and religion
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Spiritualism
- Afro-Caribbean cults
- Blacks
- Blacks
- Spirits
- Women and spiritualism
- Material culture
- Water
- Caribbean Area
- Afro-Caribbean cults
- Blacks
- Blacks
- Material culture
- Spirits
- Spiritualism
- Water
- Women and spiritualism
- Caribbean Area
- Label
- Archives of conjure : stories of the dead in Afrolatinx cultures, Solimar Otero
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Archives of conjure -- Residual transcriptions -- Crossings -- Flows -- Sirens -- Conclusion: Espuma del mar, sea-foam
- Control code
- on1128885208
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- xv, 248 pages
- Isbn
- 9780231194334
- Lccn
- 2019038651
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Label
- Archives of conjure : stories of the dead in Afrolatinx cultures, Solimar Otero
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Archives of conjure -- Residual transcriptions -- Crossings -- Flows -- Sirens -- Conclusion: Espuma del mar, sea-foam
- Control code
- on1128885208
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- xv, 248 pages
- Isbn
- 9780231194334
- Lccn
- 2019038651
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
Subject
- Blacks -- Caribbean Area -- Rites and ceremonies
- Blacks -- Religious life
- Blacks -- Religious life -- Caribbean Area
- Blacks -- Rites and ceremonies
- Caribbean Area
- Caribbean Area -- Religious life and customs
- Material culture -- Religious aspects
- Material culture -- Religious aspects
- Spirits
- Spirits
- Spiritualism
- Spiritualism -- Caribbean Area
- Water -- Religious aspects
- Water -- Religious aspects
- Women and spiritualism
- Women and spiritualism -- Caribbean Area
- Afro-Caribbean cults
- Afro-Caribbean cults
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