El monte : notes on the religions, magic, and folklore of the Black and Creole people of Cuba /

El monte : notes on the religions, magic, and folklore of the Black and Creole people of Cuba /

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Author / Creator:	Cabrera, Lydia, author.
Uniform title:	Monte. English
Imprint:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Description:	lxxxiii, 589 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
Subject:	Black people -- Cuba -- Religion. Santeria -- Cuba. Black people -- Cuba -- Folklore. Traditional medicine -- Cuba. Magic -- Cuba. Folklore -- Cuba. African diaspora. African diaspora. Black people. Black people -- Religion. Folklore. Magic. Religion. Santeria. Traditional medicine. Cuba -- Religion. Cuba. Folklore.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13376231

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Other authors / contributors:	Font-Navarrete, David, 1973- translator.
ISBN:	9781478018735 1478018739 9781478016090 1478016094 9781478023340
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Translation of the original Spanish.
Summary:	"First published in Cuba in 1954 and appearing here in English for the first time, Lydia Cabrera's El Monte is a foundational and iconic study of Afro-Cuban religious and cultural traditions. Drawing on conversations with elderly Afro-Cuban priests who were one or two generations away from the transatlantic slave trade, Cabrera combines ethnography, history, folklore, literature, and botany to provide a panoramic account of the multifaceted influence of Afro-Atlantic cultures in Cuba. Cabrera details the natural and spiritual landscape of the Cuban monte (forest, wilderness) and discusses hundreds of herbs and the constellations of deities, sacred rights, and knowledge that envelop them. The result is a complex spiritual and medicinal architecture of Afro-Cuban cultures. This new edition of what is often referred to as "the Santería bible" includes a new foreword, introduction, and translator notes. As a seminal work in the study of the African diaspora that has profoundly impacted numerous fields, Cabrera's magnum opus is essential for scholars, activists, and religious devotees of Afro-Cuban traditions alike"--
Other form:	Online version: Cabrera, Lydia. Monte. Durham : Duke University Press, 2023 9781478023340

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