Binding: Paperback
Description: A Party for Lazarus is the story of a Cuban family six generations removed from slavery struggling to honor its ancestors amid changing fortunes and a crumbling state. This intimate intergenerational account centers on an annual feast celebrating ancestors and oris's the life - changing spirits at the heart of Black Atlantic religious life. Based on twenty years of fieldwork Todd Ram n Ochoa's masterful ethnography shows how oris praise and everyday life have changed in revolutionary Cuba over two decades of economic hardship.
Title: A Party For Lazarus Six Generations Of Ancestral Devotion In A Cuban Town
Author(s): Ochoa Todd Ramon
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520315983
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 5/19/2020
Category: Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography