Eshu: The Divine Trickster

About Donald J. CosentinoGeorge ChemecheVagner Goncalves da Silva

George Chemeche is an Israeli/American artist who has lived in New York City since 1971. In 2003 he published his book Ibejis: The Cult of Yoruba Twins which coincided with the show Doubly Blessed that he curated in The Museum of African Art in New York. His second book The Horse Rider In African Art ISBN: 9781851496341 was published in 2011. He gives lectures about the art and cult of the Ibeji twin figures in museums and colleges. Donald Cosentino (ph.D.) has done extensive fieldwork in Nigeria Sierra Leone Haiti Cuba and Los Angeles. He is the author of Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers: Tradition and Invention in Mende Story Performance and Vodou Things: The Art of Pierrot Barra and Marie Cassais. As a Guggenheim Fellow (2006) Cosentino completed fieldwork for Chasing the Dead an ethnographic novel on Afro-Angeleno Spiritism. Vagner Gonçalves da Silva is Professor of Anthropology at the University of São Paulo Brazil. He has written and edited various books and articles including Metropolitan Orixás (1995); Candomblé and Umbanda Ways of Brazilian Devotion (2005 2nd edn) and The Anthropologist and his Magic: Fieldwork and Ethnographic Text in the Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Religions (2000) Afro-Brazilian Memories (Three volumes) and Religious Intolerance (2005). He was a member of the committee for the foundation of the Afro-Brasil Museum (São Paulo).