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Voice of the leopard : African secret societies and Cuba /

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.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.