Situated narratives and sacred dance : performing the entangled histories of Cuba and West Africa / Jill Flanders Crosby and J. T. Torres.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crosby, Jill Flanders, editor, author.

Torres, J. T., editor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anlo (African people)--Cuba--Social conditions.

Anlo (African people).

Ewe (African people)--Cuba--Social conditions.

Ewe (African people).

Anlo (African people)--Cuba--Rites and ceremonies.

Ewe (African people)--Cuba--Rites and ceremonies.

Dance--Cuba--Religious aspects.

Dance.

Slave trade--Africa, West--History.

Slave trade.

History.

Rites and ceremonies.

Social conditions.

West Africa.

Slave trade--Cuba--History.

Dance--Ghana--Religious aspects.

Ethnology--Cuba.

Ethnology.

Cuba.

Dance--Religious aspects.

Ewe (African people)--Rites and ceremonies.

Ewe (African people)--Social conditions.

Ghana.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Through a revolutionary ethnographic approach that foregrounds storytelling and performance, this book explores shared ritual traditions between the Anlo-Ewe people of West Africa and their descendants, the Arará of Cuba, who were brought to the island in the Atlantic slave trade"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Unfolding Layers

Part 1. Situated Narratives, Embodied Memories: Living Oral Histories

Theories and Methods of Artists Performing Fieldwork

The Trouble with Arar or All Things Religious Belong Together

Perico and Agramonte: Sensorial Stories / Jill Flanders Crosby

Perico / Jill Flanders Crosby and Melba Núñez Isalbe

The Rememberer / J. T. Torres

Agramonte / Jill Flanders Crosby

Becoming History: The Many Lives of Justo Zulueta

The Notebooks / J. T. Torres

French Gods and the Aw n: Narrating Armando Zulueta / Jill Flanders Crosby

Dzodze: Dancing with Dashi / Jill Flanders Crosby

Adjodogou: In the Land of Vodu / Jill Flanders Crosby

Acts of Storytelling

Part 2. Secrets Under the Skin: Sensing the Moment at the Intersection of Art and Research

Narrating the Secrets Under the Skin Installation / Jill Flanders Crosby

The Artist's Accidental Proof: The Palm Frond and the Wood Block / Susan Matthews

Photographic Insights: Ceremonial Ritual in Ghana and Togo / Brian Jeffery

in listening/in response / Marianne M. Kim

Witnessing and Sensing Stories / Melba Núñez Isalbe

Conclusion: Participating in Metaculture / Jill Flanders Crosby and J. T. Torres

Afterword / Jill Flanders Crosby

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Flanders Crosby, Jill. Situated narratives and sacred dance

ISBN:

9781683402060

1683402065

OCLC:

1201683420