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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, Ivor (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2009.
Colección:Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)
Temas:
Sociedad Abakuá (Cuba)
Secret societies > Cuba.
Black people > Cuba > Social life and customs.
Sociétés secrètes > Cuba.
Personnes noires > Cuba > Mœurs et coutumes.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > Cuba.
Black people > Social life and customs
Secret societies
Geheimbund
Geheimbund > Schwarze > Kuba > Geschichte 19. Jh.
Schwarze.
Geheimbund.
Cuba
Kuba > Geschichte 19. Jh.
Kuba.
Afrikaner.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 to
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xx, 364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-337) and index.
ISBN:9781604738148
1604738146

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