Archives of conjure, stories of the dead in Afrolatinx cultures, Solimar Otero
Type
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Archives of conjure, stories of the dead in Afrolatinx cultures, Solimar Otero
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Archives of conjure
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1128885208
Responsibility statement
Solimar Otero
Series statement
Gender, theory, and religion
Sub title
stories of the dead in Afrolatinx cultures
Summary
"In Afrolatinx religious practices such as Cuban Espiritismo, Puerto Rican SanterĂa, and Brazilian CandomblĂ©, 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"--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Introduction: Archives of conjure -- Residual transcriptions -- Crossings -- Flows -- Sirens -- Conclusion: Espuma del mar, sea-foam
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- Water + Religious aspects
- Women and spiritualism -- Caribbean Area
- Spiritualism -- Caribbean Area
- Women and spiritualism
- Spiritualism
- Blacks + Religious life
- Afro-Caribbean cults
- Black people -- Caribbean Area -- Rites and ceremonies
- Caribbean Area -- Religious life and customs
- Spirits
- Material culture + Religious aspects
- Caribbean Area
- Blacks + Rites and ceremonies
- Black people + Religious life -- Caribbean Area
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Outgoing Resources
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- Subject14
- Water + Religious aspects
- Women and spiritualism -- Caribbean Area
- Spiritualism -- Caribbean Area
- Women and spiritualism
- Spiritualism
- Blacks + Religious life
- Afro-Caribbean cults
- Black people -- Caribbean Area -- Rites and ceremonies
- Caribbean Area -- Religious life and customs
- Spirits
- Material culture + Religious aspects
- Caribbean Area
- Blacks + Rites and ceremonies
- Black people + Religious life -- Caribbean Area
- Content1
- Author1
- Is Part Of1
- Other version1
- Mapped to1