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A Party for Lazarus: Six Generations of Ancestral Devotion in a Cuban Town (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520315976)
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xA Party for Lazarus is the story of a Cuban family, six generations removed from slavery, struggling to honor its ancestors amid changing fortunes and a crumbling state. This intimate intergenerational account centers on an annual feast celebrating ancestors and oris s--the life-changing spirits at the heart of Black Atlantic religious life. Based on twenty years of fieldwork, Todd Ram n Ochoa's masterful ethnography shows how oris praise and everyday life have changed in revolutionary Cuba over two decades of economic hardship.
Author: Todd Ram Ochoa
ISBN-10: 0520315979
ISBN-13: 9780520315976
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 05/19/2020
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.30d
By Todd Ram Ochoa
xTodd Ram Ochoa is a cultural anthropologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Society of the Dead: Quita Manaquita and Palo Praise in Cuba.
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