1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777668903321

Autore

Rodríguez-Mangual Edna M

Titolo

Lydia Cabrera and the construction of an Afro-Cuban cultural identity [[electronic resource] /] / Edna M. Rodríguez-Mangual

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2004

ISBN

979-88-908786-8-7

0-8078-7628-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Collana

Envisioning Cuba

Disciplina

868/.6409

Soggetti

Black people - Cultural assimilation - Cuba

Black people - Cuba - Ethnic identity

Black people - Cuba

Cuba Civilization African influences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-193) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Point of Departure: Fernando Ortiz and Afro-Cuban Studies; 2 A Disarticulation of the Gaze: Exploring Modes of Authority and Representation in the Rhetoric of El monte; 3 The Death of the King: Between Anthropology and Fiction; 4 The Anthropologist's Exile: Nation and Simulacrum; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991) collected oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent. Her work is often viewed as an extension of the work of her famous brother-in-law, Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz. Edna Rodriguez-Mangual challenges this, proposing that her work is an alternative to the hegemonizing national myth of Cuba.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910823842503321

Autore

Hackett David G

Titolo

That religion in which all men agree : freemasonry in American culture / / David G. Hackett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-520-28760-6

0-520-95762-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Disciplina

366/.10973

Soggetti

Freemasonry - United States - History

Group identity - United States - History

United States Religion

United States Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Colonial Freemasonry and Polite Society, 1733-1776 -- 2. Revolutionary Masonry: Republican and Christian, 1757-1825 -- 3. A Private World of Ritual, 1797-1825 -- 4. Anti-Masonry and the Public Sphere, 1826-1850 -- 5. Gender, Protestants, and Freemasonry, 1850-1920 -- 6. The Prince Hall Masons and the African American Church: The Labors of Grand Master and Bishop James Walker Hood, 1864-1918 -- 7. Freemasonry and Native Americans, 1776-1920 -- 8. Jews and Catholics, 1723-1920 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This powerful study weaves the story of Freemasonry into the narrative of American religious history. Freighted with the mythical legacies of stonemasons' guilds and the Newtonian revolution, English Freemasonry arrived in colonial America with a vast array of cultural baggage, which was drawn on, added to, and transformed during its sojourn through American culture. David G. Hackett argues that from the 1730's through the early twentieth century the religious worlds of an evolving American social order broadly appropriated the beliefs and initiatory practices of this all-male society. For much of American



history, Freemasonry was both counter and complement to Protestant churches, as well as a forum for collective action among racial and ethnic groups outside the European American Protestant mainstream. Moreover, the cultural template of Freemasonry gave shape and content to the American "public sphere." By including a group not usually seen as a carrier of religious beliefs and rituals, Hackett expands and complicates the terrain of American religious history by showing how Freemasonry has contributed to a broader understanding of the multiple influences that have shaped religion in American culture.