Santeria Enthroned: Art, Ritual, and Innovation in an Afro-Cuban Religion

by David H. Brown

Book Overview

Ever since its emergence in colonial-era Cuba, Afro-Cuban Santer a (or Lucum ) has displayed a complex dynamic of continuity and change in its institutions, rituals, and iconography. In Santer a Enthroned, David H. Brown combines art history, cultural anthropology, and ethnohistory to show how Africans and their descendants have developed novel forms of religious practice in the face of relentless oppression.

Focusing on the royal throne...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226076105
• ISBN13: 9780226076102
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.5" x 9.4"