Voice of the Leopard African Secret Societies and Cuba Ivor L. Miller

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Ivor, author.

Contributor:

Project Muse, distributor.

Series:

Caribbean studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociedad Abakuá (Cuba).

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

Black people.

Secret societies--Cuba.

Secret societies.

Black people--Social life and customs.

Cuba.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 pages): illustrations (some color), maps (some color)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. Project MUSE 0000

Place of Publication:

Jackson University Press of Mississippi 2009

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 Ékpe, or "leopard," which was the highest indigenous authority. Ékpe lodges ruled local communities while also managing regional and long-distance trade. Cross River Africans, enslaved and forcibly brought to

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 : Ékpe has one voice

Notes:

Description based on print version record

ISBN:

9781621038597

1621038599

OCLC:

1434630876