TY - GEN T1 - Archives of conjure : stories of the dead in Afrolatinx cultures T2 - Gender, theory, and religion. A1 - Otero, Solimar LA - English PP - New York PB - Columbia University Press YR - 2020 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1128887492 AB - "In Afrolatinx religious practices such as Cuban Espiritismo, Puerto Rican Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé, the dead tell stories. Communicating with and through mediums' bodies, they give advice, make requests, and propose future rituals, creating a living archive that is coproduced by the dead. In this book, Solimar Otero explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation of material culture. By examining spirit mediumship through a Caribbean cross-cultural poetics, she shows how divinities and ancestors serve as active agents in shaping the experiences of gender, sexuality, and race. Otero argues that what she calls archives of conjure are produced through residual transcriptions or reverberations of the stories of the dead whose archives are stitched, beaded, smoked, and washed into official and unofficial repositories. She investigates how sites like the ocean, rivers, and institutional archives create connected contexts for unlocking the spatial activation of residual transcriptions. Drawing on over ten years of archival research and fieldwork in Cuba, Otero centers the storytelling practices of Afrolatinx women and LGBTQ spiritual practitioners alongside Caribbean literature and performance. Archives of Conjure offers vital new perspectives on ephemerality, temporality, and material culture, unraveling undertheorized questions about how spirits shape communities of practice, ethnography, literature, and history and revealing the deeply connected nature of art, scholarship, and worship"-- CN - BF1242.C37 A73 2020 SN - 9780231550765 SN - 0231550766 SN - 0231194323 SN - 9780231194327 SN - 0231194331 SN - 9780231194334 KW - Spiritualism : Caribbean Area. KW - Afro-Caribbean religions. KW - Black people : Religious life : Caribbean Area. KW - Black people : Caribbean Area : Rites and ceremonies. KW - Spirits. KW - Women and spiritualism : Caribbean Area. KW - Material culture : Religious aspects. KW - Water : Religious aspects. KW - Caribbean Area : Religious life and customs. KW - Spiritisme : Caraïbes (Région) KW - Cultes afro-antillais. KW - Personnes noires : Vie religieuse : Caraïbes (Région) KW - Esprits. KW - Femmes et spiritisme : Caraïbes (Région) KW - Culture matérielle : Aspect religieux. KW - Eau : Aspect religieux. KW - Caraïbes (Région) : Vie religieuse. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : Caribbean & Latin American. KW - RELIGION : Ethnic & Tribal. KW - Afro-Caribbean cults KW - Black people : Religious life KW - Black people : Rites and ceremonies KW - Material culture : Religious aspects KW - Spirits KW - Spiritualism KW - Water : Religious aspects KW - Women and spiritualism KW - Caribbean Area ER -