A party for Lazarus : six generations of ancestral devotion in a Cuban town

"A Party for Lazarus is the story of a Cuban family, six generations removed from slavery, struggling to honor their ancestors amid changing fortunes and a crumbling state. It is an intimate portrait of an intergenerational family saga involving the future of an annual feast to celebrate ancest...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ochoa, Todd Ramón, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press [2020]
Subjects:
Babalúaiyé > (Afro-Caribbean deity)
Fasts and feasts > Orisha religion > Social aspects.
Fasts and feasts > Social aspects > Cuba.
Ancestor worship > Cuba.
Morts > Culte > Cuba.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Ancestor worship
Cuba
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The ring and the altar
  • La Sociedad Africana, 1880-1940: Chacha Cairo among the dead and the Santos-Orisás
  • Cucusa Sáez and her children
  • 1999: return
  • A meal for the dead
  • Opening
  • Slaughter
  • A bembé for San Lázaro-Babalú Ayé
  • 2005: loss
  • A hole to fill
  • Dear Elégua
  • 2006: decay
  • Zulia's oyá
  • 2009: deceit
  • Voices of the dead
  • 2012: prohibition
  • Lázaro M
  • Two bembés
  • 2014: despair
  • Sovereigns of affliction
  • Epilogue: 2018: recovery

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