El monte : notes on the religions, magic, and folklore of the Black and Creole people of Cuba /

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"First published in Cuba in 1954 and appearing here in English for the first time, Lydia Cabrera's El Monte is a foundational and iconic study of Afro-Cuban religious and cultural traditions. Drawing on conversations with elderly Afro-Cuban priests who were one or two generations away from...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cabrera, Lydia (Autor)
Otros Autores: Font-Navarrete, David, 1973- (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Español
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Colección:Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
Temas:
Black people > Cuba > Religion.
Santeria > Cuba.
Black people > Cuba > Folklore.
Traditional medicine > Cuba.
Magic > Cuba.
Folklore > Cuba.
African diaspora.
Personnes noires > Cuba > Religion.
Santeria (Culte) > Cuba.
Personnes noires > Cuba > Folklore.
Africains > Pays étrangers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba.
African diaspora
Black people
Black people > Religion
Folklore
Magic
Religion
Santeria
Traditional medicine
Cuba > Religion.
Cuba
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"First published in Cuba in 1954 and appearing here in English for the first time, Lydia Cabrera's El Monte is a foundational and iconic study of Afro-Cuban religious and cultural traditions. Drawing on conversations with elderly Afro-Cuban priests who were one or two generations away from the transatlantic slave trade, Cabrera combines ethnography, history, folklore, literature, and botany to provide a panoramic account of the multifaceted influence of Afro-Atlantic cultures in Cuba. Cabrera details the natural and spiritual landscape of the Cuban monte (forest, wilderness) and discusses hundreds of herbs and the constellations of deities, sacred rights, and knowledge that envelop them. The result is a complex spiritual and medicinal architecture of Afro-Cuban cultures. This new edition of what is often referred to as "the Santería bible" includes a new foreword, introduction, and translator notes. As a seminal work in the study of the African diaspora that has profoundly impacted numerous fields, Cabrera's magnum opus is essential for scholars, activists, and religious devotees of Afro-Cuban traditions alike"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (lxxxiii, 589 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781478023340
1478023341
9781478093084
1478093080

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