RT Book
T1 Archives of conjure: stories of the dead in Afrolatinx cultures
T2 Gender, theory, and religion
A1 Otero, Solimar 1971-
LA English
PP New York
PB Columbia University Press
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1683581776
AB "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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN a
SN 978-0-231-19433-4
SN 978-0-231-19432-7
K1 Afro-Caribbean cults
K1 Blacks : Caribbean Area : Religious life
K1 Blacks : Caribbean Area : Rites and ceremonies
K1 Spiritualism : Caribbean Area
K1 Afro-Caribbean religions
K1 Black people : Caribbean Area : Religious life
K1 Black people : Caribbean Area : Rites and ceremonies
K1 Spirits
K1 Women and spiritualism : Caribbean Area
K1 Material Culture : Religious aspects
K1 Water : Religious aspects
K1 Caribbean Area : Religious life and customs