The Gut

by Elizabeth Prez and Elizabeth Pérez

If the head is religion, the gut is magic. Taking up this provocation, this Element delves into the digestive system within transnational Afro-Diasporic religions such as Haitian Vodou, Brazilian Candomblé, and Cuban Lucumí (also called Santería). It draws from the ethnographic and archival record to probe the abdomen as a vital zone of sensory perception, amplified in countless divination verses, myths, rituals, and recipes for ethnomedical remedies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009013475
• ISBN13: 9781009013475
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"