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A party for Lazarus : six generations of ancestral devotion in a Cuban town / Todd Ramón Ochoa.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ochoa, Todd Ramón, 1969- author.
- Series:
- Fletcher Jones Foundation book in humanities.
- Fletcher Jones Foundation book in humanities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Babalúaiy (Afro-Caribbean deity).
- Babalúaiy.
- Fasts and feasts--Orisha religion--Social aspects.
- Fasts and feasts.
- Fasts and feasts--Social aspects--Cuba.
- Ancestor worship--Cuba.
- Ancestor worship.
- Social aspects.
- Orisha religion.
- Cuba.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 314 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "A Party for Lazarus is the story of a Cuban family, six generations removed from slavery, struggling to honor their ancestors amid changing fortunes and a crumbling state. It is an intimate portrait of an intergenerational family saga involving the future of an annual feast to celebrate ancestors and orisás-the life-changing spirits at the center of Black Atlantic religious life. Based on twenty years of fieldwork, Todd Ramón Ochoa's masterful ethnography shows how orisá praise and everyday life have changed in revolutionary Cuba over two decades of economic hardship"-- Provided by publisher.
- "A Party for Lazarus is the story of a Cuban family, six generations removed from slavery, struggling to honor their ancestors amid changing fortunes and a crumbling state. It is an intimate portrait of an intergenerational family saga involving the future of an annual feast to celebrate ancestors and oris�as-the life-changing spirits at the center of Black Atlantic religious life. Based on twenty years of fieldwork, Todd Ram�on Ochoa's masterful ethnography shows how oris�a praise and everyday life have changed in revolutionary Cuba over two decades of economic hardship"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The ring and the altar
- La Sociedad Africana, 1880-1940: Chacha Cairo among the dead and the Santos-Orisás
- Cucusa Sáez and her children
- 1999: return
- A meal for the dead
- Opening
- Slaughter
- A bembé for San Lázaro-Babalú Ayé
- 2005: loss
- A hole to fill
- Dear Elégua
- 2006: decay
- Zulia's oyá
- 2009: deceit
- Voices of the dead
- 2012: prohibition
- Lázaro M
- Two bembés
- 2014: despair
- Sovereigns of affliction
- Epilogue: 2018: recovery.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ochoa, Todd Ramón, 1969- A party for Lazarus
- ISBN:
- 9780520315983
- 9780520315976
- 0520315979
- 0520315987
- OCLC:
- 1110679936
- Publisher Number:
- 99984752923
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