1st Edition
Santería Enthroned Art, Ritual, and Innovation in an Afro-Cuban Religion
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Institutional and Ritual Innovation
1. Black Royalty: New Social Frameworks and Remodeled Iconographies in Nineteenth-Century Havana
2. From Cabildo de Nacíon to Casa-Templo: The New Lucumí, Institutional Reform, and the Shifting Location of Cultural Authenticity
3. Myths of the Yoruba Past and Innovations of the Lucumí Present: The Narrative Production of Cosmology, Authority, and Ritual Variation
Part II: Iconographic Innovation
4. Royal Iconography and the Modern Lucumí Initiation
5. "The Palace of the Obá Lucumí" and the "Creole Taste": Innovations in Iconography and Meaning
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Fredrika Bremer’s Description of a Sunday Afternoon Drumming in a Havana Lucumí Calbido, 1853
Appendix 2: Irene Wright’s Description of Her Visit to "African Cabildo" in El Cerro, 1910
Appendix 3: The "Regular" Ifá-Centric Initiation versus the Ocha-Centric Initiation
Appendix 4: The Oriate’s Counternarrative to Ifa-Centric Ocha Practive
Appendix 5: Calendar of Oricha and Saint Feasts Days
Appendix 6: Oral Data from Fieldwork: Interviews, Personal Communications and Correspondence
Notes
Glossary
Works Cited
Index
Biography
David H. Brown
