Description: Further DetailsTitle: Archives of ConjureCondition: NewEAN: 9780231194334ISBN: 9780231194334Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/24/2020Item Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmAuthor: Solimar OteroLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx CulturesISBN-10: 0231194331Description: In Afrolatinx religious practices such as Cuban Espiritismo, Puerto Rican Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé, the dead tell stories. Communicating with and through mediums’ bodies, they give advice, make requests, and propose future rituals, creating a living archive that is coproduced by the dead. In this book, Solimar Otero explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation of material culture. By examining spirit mediumship through a Caribbean cross-cultural poetics, she shows how divinities and ancestors serve as active agents in shaping the experiences of gender, sexuality, and race.Otero argues that what she calls archives of conjure are produced through residual transcriptions or reverberations of the stories of the dead whose archives are stitched, beaded, smoked, and washed into official and unofficial repositories. She investigates how sites like the ocean, rivers, and institutional archives create connected contexts for unlocking the spatial activation of residual transcriptions. Drawing on over ten years of archival research and fieldwork in Cuba, Otero centers the storytelling practices of Afrolatinx women and LGBTQ spiritual practitioners alongside Caribbean literature and performance. Archives of Conjure offers vital new perspectives on ephemerality, temporality, and material culture, unraveling undertheorized questions about how spirits shape communities of practice, ethnography, literature, and history and revealing the deeply connected nature of art, scholarship, and worship.Country/Region of Manufacture: USBook Series: Gender, Theory, and ReligionGenre: Literary CriticismTopic: Society & Culture, Gender Sex & Relationships, Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Archives of Conjure
Title: Archives of Conjure
EAN: 9780231194334
ISBN: 9780231194334
Release Date: 03/24/2020
Release Year: 2020
Subtitle: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures
ISBN-10: 0231194331
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Publication Name: Archives of Conjure : Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2020
Subject: Caribbean & Latin American, General, Ethnic & Tribal, Spiritualism, Sexuality & Gender Studies, Supernatural, Customs & Traditions
Item Height: 0.1 in
Item Weight: 11.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Religion, Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Solimar Otero
Item Width: 0.6 in
Series: Gender, Theory, and Religion Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
