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Voice of the leopard : African secret societies and Cuba / Ivor L. Miller.
Van Pelt Library HS1355.S64 C845 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Ivor.
- Series:
- Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)
- Caribbean studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociedad Abakuá (Cuba).
- Secret societies--Cuba.
- Secret societies.
- Black people--Cuba--Social life and customs.
- Black people.
- Manners and customs.
- Cuba.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2009]
- Contents:
- Arrival
- The fortified city
- Planting Abakuá in Cuba, 1830s to 1860s
- From Creole to Carabalí
- Dispersal : Abakuá exiled to Florida and Spanish Africa
- Disintegration of the Spanish empire
- Havana is the key : Abakuá in Cuban music
- Conclusions
- Epilogue: Cubans in Calabar : Ékpè has one voice.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-337) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781934110836
- 1934110833
- OCLC:
- 227031643
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