Claire Garoutte, Anneke Wambaugh

Crossing the Water

A Photographic Path to the Afro-Cuban Spirit World

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Produktbeschreibung

Textual and photographic exploration of the diversity and hybridity of Afro-Cuban religious practices, with a first-hand account by a practitioner whose individual experience speaks to larger themes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 270mm x 236mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 1370g
• ISBN-13: 9780822340201
• ISBN-10: 0822340208
• Artikelnr.: 22887578

Autorenporträt

Claire Garoutte is Assistant Professor of Photography at Seattle University. Her work has appeared in exhibits in the United States and abroad. Garoutte began photographing Afro-Cuban religious practices in Cuba in 1994. She is the author and illustrator of Matter of Trust. Anneke Wambaugh is an award-winning photographer and an independent scholar of African and Afro-Caribbean ritual art who has worked extensively in Cuba and Haiti. She works as a Haitian Creole interpreter in Seattle.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. I Bow My Head to the Ground: Santería Thrones and Rituals 25
2. Ver Para Creer (Seeing is Believing): The Prendas and Ritual of
PaloMonte 67
3. It's My War Now: The Private Sphere of Santiago's Daily Practice 115
4. I Am Not from Here: Espiritismo and the Congo Spirits of the Dead 157
Afterword: ¿Y la Otra? (And the Other One?): The Nature of Our
Collaboration 199
Notes 203
Glossary 227
Bibliography 243
Index 249