Performing Afro-Cuba - Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History

Visitors to Cuba will notice that Afro-Cuban figures and references are everywhere. The author examines how the animation of Cuba's colonial past and African heritage through such figures and performances not only reflects but also shapes the Cuban experience of Blackness.

About the author

Kristina Wirtz is associate professor of anthropology at Western Michigan University. She is the author of Ritual, Discourse, and Community in Cuban Santeria.

Summary

Visitors to Cuba will notice that Afro-Cuban figures and references are everywhere. The author examines how the animation of Cuba's colonial past and African heritage through such figures and performances not only reflects but also shapes the Cuban experience of Blackness.

Product details

• Authors: Kristina Wirtz, Wirtz Kristina
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.06.2014
• EAN: 9780226118864
• ISBN: 978-0-226-11886-4
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Cuba, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology