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Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba (Hardcover 1st Edition)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “VG+ condition - hardcover and book cover are in great shape.”
- Brand
- Unbranded
- Book Title
- Voice Of The Leopard
- Features
- 1st Edition
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9781934110836
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
ISBN-10
1934110833
ISBN-13
9781934110836
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66614600
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Publication Name
Voice of the Leopard : African Secret Societies and Cuba
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Subject
General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science
Series
Caribbean Studies Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
28.9 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2008-033971
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
369.097291
Synopsis
In Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba, Ivor L. Miller shows how African migrants and their political fraternities played a formative role in the history of Cuba. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, no large kingdoms controlled Nigeria and Cameroon's multilingual Cross River basin. Instead, each settlement had its own lodge of the initiation society called Ékpè, or ""leopard,"" which was the highest indigenous authority. Ékpè lodges ruled local communities while also managing regional and long-distance trade. Cross River Africans, enslaved and forcibly brought to colonial Cuba, reorganized their Ékpè clubs covertly in Havana and Matanzas into a mutual-aid society called Abakuá, which became foundational to Cuba's urban life and music. Miller's extensive fieldwork in Cuba and West Africa documents ritual languages and practices that survived the Middle Passage and evolved into a unifying charter for transplanted slaves and their successors. To gain deeper understanding of the material, Miller underwent Ékpè initiation rites in Nigeria after ten years' collaboration with Abakuá initiates in Cuba and the United States. He argues that Cuban music, art, and even politics rely on complexities of these African-inspired codes of conduct and leadership. Voice of the Leopard is an unprecedented tracing of an African title-society to its Caribbean incarnation, which has deeply influenced Cuba's creative energy and popular consciousness., Shows how African migrants and their political fraternities played a formative role in the history of Cuba. Ivor L. Miller's extensive fieldwork in Cuba and West Africa documents ritual languages and practices that survived the Middle Passage and evolved into a unifying charter for transplanted slaves and their successors.
LC Classification Number
HS1355.S64C845 2009
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