LEADER 03025nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910459591003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-77179-5 010 $a9786612771798 010 $a0-520-94792-4 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520947924 035 $a(CKB)2670000000047793 035 $a(EBL)581281 035 $a(OCoLC)673471789 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000428410 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11291018 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000428410 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10414183 035 $a(PQKB)11010852 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000084807 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581281 035 $a(DE-B1597)519868 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520947924 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581281 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10417073 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL277179 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000047793 100 $a20100201d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSociety of the dead$b[electronic resource] $eQuita Manaquita and Palo praise in Cuba /$fTodd Ramo?n Ochoa 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (327 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-25684-0 311 $a0-520-25683-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. The dead -- pt. 2. Palo society -- pt. 3. Prendas-Ngangas-Enquisos -- pt. 4. Palo craft. 330 $aIn a riveting first-person account, Todd Ramón Ochoa explores Palo, a Kongo-inspired "society of affliction" that is poorly understood at the margins of Cuban popular religion. Narrated as an encounter with two teachers of Palo, the book unfolds on the outskirts of Havana as it recounts Ochoa's attempts to assimilate Palo praise of the dead. As he comes to terms with a world in which everyday events and materials are composed of the dead, Ochoa discovers in Palo unexpected resources for understanding the relationship between matter and spirit, for rethinking anthropology's rendering of sorcery, and for representing the play of power in Cuban society. The first fully detailed treatment of the world of Palo, Society of the Dead draws upon recent critiques of Western metaphysics as it reveals what this little known practice can tell us about sensation, transformation, and redemption in the Black Atlantic. 606 $aPalo 606 $aAfro-Caribbean cults$zCuba 606 $aDeath$xReligious aspects 607 $aCuba$xReligious life and customs 607 $aCuba$xReligion$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPalo. 615 0$aAfro-Caribbean cults 615 0$aDeath$xReligious aspects. 676 $a299.6/7 700 $aOchoa$b Todd Ramo?n$f1969-$01041162 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459591003321 996 $aSociety of the dead$92464503 997 $aUNINA