Voice of the leopard [electronic resource] : African secret societies and Cuba / Ivor L. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Ivor.

Series:

Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)

Caribbean studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Secret societies--Cuba.

Secret societies.

Black people--Cuba--Social life and customs.

Black people.

Sociedad Abakuá (Cuba).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba, Ivor L. Miller shows how African migrants and their political fraternities played a formative role in the history of Cuba. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, no large kingdoms controlled Nigeria and Cameroon's multilingual Cross River basin. Instead, each settlement had its own lodge of the initiation society called Ékpè, or ""leopard,"" which was the highest indigenous authority. Ékpè lodges ruled local communities while also managing regional and long-distance trade. Cross River Africans, enslaved and forcibly brought

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-43473-3

9786613434739

1-60473-814-6

OCLC:

774385306