Afro-Cuban Religions

Afro-Cuban Religions

by Miguel Barnet
ISBN-10:
155876254X
ISBN-13:
9781558762541
Pub. Date:
06/21/2020
Publisher:
Wiener, Markus Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN-10:
155876254X
ISBN-13:
9781558762541
Pub. Date:
06/21/2020
Publisher:
Wiener, Markus Publishers, Incorporated
Afro-Cuban Religions

Afro-Cuban Religions

by Miguel Barnet
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Overview

African-derived religions enrich all aspects of Cuba’s social, cultural, and everyday life, and encompass all ethnic and social groups. Politics, art, and civil events such as weddings, funerals, festivals, and carnivals all possess distinctly Afro-Cuban characteristics. In this book, Miguel Barnet provides a concise guide to the various traditions and branches of Afro-Cuban religions, particularly the Regla de Ocha (Santeria) and the Regla de Palo Monte.

Africans who were brought to Cuba as slaves had to recreate their old traditions in their new Caribbean context. As their African heritage collided with Catholicism and with Native American and European traditions, certain African gods and traditions became more prominent while others lost their significance in the new Cuban culture. The author also discusses the roles of music and dance as forms of Cuban religious expression and describes the specific instru ments and symbols they employ. The book ends with an enthusiastic de piction of Barnet’s recent research journey to West Africa, the Land of the Orishas.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781558762541
Publisher: Wiener, Markus Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 06/21/2020
Pages: 170
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

MIGUEL BARNET, director of the Fernando Ortiz Foundation in Havana, is the author of Biography of a Runaway Slave and numerous other books, which have been translated into several languages.

Table of Contents

Foreword

The Role of the Myth in Cuban Culture

The Regla de Ocha

The Regla de Palo Monte

Music and Dance

Dances, Firmas and Magic

The Supernatural Beings of the Congos

In the Land of the Orishas

Notes

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