Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Caribbean Studies Series
African Secret Societies and Cuba
Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Caribbean Studies Series
ISBN: 978-1-61703-319-3
Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
Miller's extensive fieldwork in Cuba and West Africa documents ritual languages and practices that survived the Middle Passage and evolved into a unifying charter for transplanted slaves and their successors. To gain deeper understanding of the material, Miller underwent Ékpè initiation rites in Nigeria after ten years' collaboration with Abakuá initiates in Cuba and the United States. He argues that Cuban music, art, and even politics rely on complexities of these African-inspired codes of conduct and leadership. Voice of the Leopard is an unprecedented tracing of an African title-society to its Caribbean incarnation, which has deeply influenced Cuba's creative energy and popular consciousness.
This book is sponsored by a grant from the InterAmericas(r)/Society of Arts and Letters of the Americas, a program of the Reed Foundation.