A Party for Lazarus: Six Generations of Ancestral Devotion in a Cuban Town by Ochoa, Todd Ramón

A Party for Lazarus: Six Generations of Ancestral Devotion in a Cuban Town (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520315983)

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A Party for Lazarus: Six Generations of Ancestral Devotion in a Cuban Town by Ochoa, Todd Ramón

A Party for Lazarus: Six Generations of Ancestral Devotion in a Cuban Town

$29.95
A Party for Lazarus: Six Generations of Ancestral Devotion in a Cuban Town by Ochoa, Todd Ramón

A Party for Lazarus: Six Generations of Ancestral Devotion in a Cuban Town

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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A 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: 0520315987
ISBN-13: 9780520315983
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 05/19/2020
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.20d
By Todd Ram Ochoa
By Todd Ram Ochoa
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Todd 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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