The light inside : Abakuá society arts and Cuban cultural history /: Abakuá society arts and Cuban cultural history. (2019)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The light inside : Abakuá society arts and Cuban cultural history /: Abakuá society arts and Cuban cultural history. (2019)
- Main Title:
- The light inside : Abakuá society arts and Cuban cultural history
- Further Information:
- Note: David H. Brown.
- Authors:
- Brown, David H (David Hilary), 1957-
- Contents:
- List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Part I: "The Light Inside": Abakuá Society Arts and Modern Cuban Cultural History Introduction: Meanings, Methods, and the Cultural Biography of Things Abakuá 2. The Abakuá Society and the African Society Diaspora 3. Abakuá Altar Arts: Ekue, Representation, and the Banner of Regla’s Efori Eñongo 4. Cloth and Signs: West African Ukara and the Iconography of Regla’s Efori Eñongo 5. Altars, Offices, and Multiple Meanings 6. "Symbolic Drums:" Innovations and Inventions 7. The Íremes and Their Sacos Part II: El Nañígo "Graduates" 8. Pictures, Performances, and the Police: Changing Contexts for Costumbrista Arts 9. Struggle over Possession of the Secret: The Museuming of the Nañígos’ "Most Sacred Effects" 10. From Atavism to Modern Primitivism 11. From Primitivism to Folklore 12. We were Teaching How to Ask the Black Man About Very Private Personal Things: Afrocubana, the Triumph of the Revolution, and Socialist Folklore 13: "The Ethnographic Museum" and the Cuban Revolution 14. Conclusion: The Abakuá Society and the National Narrative Notes References Index
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- London : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
- Subjects:
- 366
Secret societies -- Cuba
Men -- Cuba -- Societies and clubs
Altars -- Cuba
Ceremonial objects -- Cuba
Art, Primitive -- Cuba
Blacks -- Cuba -- Rites and ceremonies
Blacks -- Religious life -- Cuba
Blacks -- Material culture -- Cuba - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781000008180
9781000001341
9781000014709
9780429283789 - Related ISBNs:
- 9780367246525
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.450298
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