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Afro Cuban religion
Author_Diana Espirito Santo
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Cosmology
Creolization
Cuban anthropology
Cuban espiritismo
Divination
Dreams
Embodiment
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Historical alliances
iIlness
Knowledge
Knowledge partiality
Learning
Marxism
Materiality
Materialization
Medicine
Mediumship
Mimesis
Morality
Palo Monte
Performance
Religious landscape
Research questions
Revolution
Ritual performance
Santeria
Scientific Spiritism
Self
Special Period hardships
Spirit guides
Spirit representations
Product details
- ISBN 9780813080383
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Oct 2023
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Studying the relationships cultivated by mediums between the living and the dead.
Based on extensive fieldwork among espiritistas and their patrons in Havana, this book makes the surprising claim that Spiritist practices are fundamentally a project of developing the self.
When mediums cultivate relationships between the living and the dead, argues Diana Espírito Santo, they develop, learn, sense, dream, and connect to multiple spirits (muertos), expanding the borders of the self. This understanding of selfhood is radically different from Enlightenment ideas of an autonomous, bounded self and holds fascinating implications for prophecy, healing, and self-consciousness. Developing the Dead shows how Espiritismo's self-making process permeates all aspects of life, not only for its own practitioners but also for those of other Afro-Cuban religions.
Based on extensive fieldwork among espiritistas and their patrons in Havana, this book makes the surprising claim that Spiritist practices are fundamentally a project of developing the self.
When mediums cultivate relationships between the living and the dead, argues Diana Espírito Santo, they develop, learn, sense, dream, and connect to multiple spirits (muertos), expanding the borders of the self. This understanding of selfhood is radically different from Enlightenment ideas of an autonomous, bounded self and holds fascinating implications for prophecy, healing, and self-consciousness. Developing the Dead shows how Espiritismo's self-making process permeates all aspects of life, not only for its own practitioners but also for those of other Afro-Cuban religions.
Diana EspÍrito Santo is assistant professor in social anthropology at the Institute of Sociology, Pontificia Universidad CatÓlica de Chile. She is coeditor of The Social Life of Spirits and Making Spirits: Materiality and Transcendence in Contemporary Religions
