ISSN:
0021-8715
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
The journal of American folklore : JAF : journal of the American Folklore Society
Publ. der Quelle:
Champaign, Ill : Univ. of Illinois Press
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 130, No. 515 (2017), p. 120
DDC:
390
Abstract:
Pp. xvii + 282, preface, acknowledgments, introduction, epilogue, glossary, notes, references, index.) In Electric Santería, Aisha Beliso-De Jesús provides a welcome ethnographic reconsideration of transnational religious flows connecting contemporary Cuban religious practitioners into a global field of African Atlantic religiosity. [...]she uses "copresence" to describe not only spirits and santos (deities of Santería), but persons, bodies, ritual objects, videos and other technologies, entire religious lineages, and even affective, corporeal, and relational schemata (producing configurations of "race," "gender," and "sexuality"; pp. 32, 38) that partake in "trance-nationalism." Beliso-De Jesús is sensitive, as well, to the dynamics ofwhat Stephan Palmié, in The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion (University of Chicago Press, 2013) calls the "ethnographic interface"; for example, Beliso-De Jesús points out that where scholars read distance as difference and assume that diaspora requires inventive adaptation, practitioners may instead experience "purity, transnationality, and consistency of their traditions across time" (p. 3).
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