A Year in White : : Cultural Newcomers to Lukumi and Santería in the United States /

A Year in White : : Cultural Newcomers to Lukumi and Santería in the United States / / C. Lynn Carr.

In the Afro-Cuban Lukumi religious tradition-more commonly known in the United States as Santería-entrants into the priesthood undergo an extraordinary fifty-three-week initiation period. During this time, these novices-called iyawo-endure a host of prohibitions, including most notably wearing exclu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter RUP eBook-Package 2016
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Carr, C. Lynn,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 4 graphs, 5 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 ◆ Situating The Iyawo
  • 2 ◆ Iyawo Experience
  • 3 ◆ Iyawo Rules
  • 4 ◆ Iyawo Social Relations
  • 5 ◆ Relating To The Orisha
  • Conclusion Two (Or More) Worlds
  • Appendix A. Research Methods
  • Appendix B. The Survey
  • Appendix C. Interview And Survey Participants
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About The Author

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