CROSSING PATHS: THE INSTANTIATION OF DESTINY IN AFRO-CUBAN RELIGIONS AND CUBAN SOCIALISM

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Beliso-De Jesús, Aisha M., 2015, Electric Santería, Nova Iorque, Columbia University Press [review]

Publication . Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios; Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA - NOVA FCSH); Berghahn Journals

2016Recensão

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When biographies cross necrographies

Publication . Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios; Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA - NOVA FCSH); Routledge | Taylor & Francis Group

In Cuba one might encounter a lively exchange occurring between the living and the dead (los muertos), one which is often described in terms of ‘affinity’. This involves a reciprocity among the biographies of the former, the past (biographies) and present condition (‘necrography’) of the latter, who are not in the least limited to ancestors or previously intimate to the living persons. The intensification of such exchange takes place within a dynamic and multiple field of identifications and differentiations, wherein the dead slowly become dead in a parallel process of un-becoming living, through becoming ‘affinity’ muertos of their living counterparts. This could be said to be the point of what is going on, but things, when they get so radically mobilised through exchange, might also go beyond the point of conclusion.

2017-10-20Artigo científico

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SFRH/BPD/76656/2011