 | Archives of Conjure: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures Subjects: Spiritualism -- Caribbean Area; Afro-Caribbean cults; Blacks -- Caribbean Area -- Religious life; Blacks -- Caribbean Area -- Rites and ceremonies; Spirits; Women and spiritualism -- Caribbean Area; Material culture -- Religious aspects; Water -- Religiou; 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. Solimar Otero is professor of folklore in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. She is the author of Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World (2010) and coeditor of Yemoja: Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in Latino/a and Afro-Atlantic Diasporas (2013). |
