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050 00 $aBF1242.C37$bO84 2020
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100 1 $aOtero, Solimar,$eauthor.
245 10 $aArchives of conjure :$bstories of the dead in Afrolatinx cultures /$cSolimar Otero.
263 $a2003
264 1 $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$c[2020]
300 $a248 p. ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aGender, Theory, and Religion
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Archives of conjure -- Residual transcriptions -- Crossings -- Flows -- Sirens -- Conclusion: Espuma del mar, sea foam.
520 $a"In Afrolatinx religious practices such as Cuban Espiritismo, Puerto Rican Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé, the dead tell stories. Communicating with and through mediums' bodies, they give advice, make requests, and propose future rituals, creating a living archive that is coproduced by the dead. In this book, Solimar Otero explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation of material culture. By examining spirit mediumship through a Caribbean cross-cultural poetics, she shows how divinities and ancestors serve as active agents in shaping the experiences of gender, sexuality, and race. Otero argues that what she calls archives of conjure are produced through residual transcriptions or reverberations of the stories of the dead whose archives are stitched, beaded, smoked, and washed into official and unofficial repositories. She investigates how sites like the ocean, rivers, and institutional archives create connected contexts for unlocking the spatial activation of residual transcriptions. Drawing on over ten years of archival research and fieldwork in Cuba, Otero centers the storytelling practices of Afrolatinx women and LGBTQ spiritual practitioners alongside Caribbean literature and performance. Archives of Conjure offers vital new perspectives on ephemerality, temporality, and material culture, unraveling undertheorized questions about how spirits shape communities of practice, ethnography, literature, and history and revealing the deeply connected nature of art, scholarship, and worship"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aSpiritualism$zCaribbean Area.
650 0 $aAfro-Caribbean cults.
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650 0 $aBlacks$zCaribbean Area$xRites and ceremonies.
650 0 $aSpirits.
650 0 $aWomen and spiritualism$zCaribbean Area.
650 0 $aMaterial culture$xReligious aspects.
650 0 $aWater$xReligious aspects.
651 0 $aCaribbean Area$xReligious life and customs.
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650 7 $aWomen and spiritualism.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01177115
651 7 $aCaribbean Area.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01244080
776 08 $iOnline version:$aOtero, Solimar.$tArchives of conjure.$dNew York : Columbia University Press, [2020]$z9780231550765$w(DLC) 2019038652
830 0 $aGender, theory, and religion.
852 00 $bglx$hBF1242.C37$iO84 2020