A Party for Lazarus is the story of a Cuban family, six generations removed from slavery, struggling to honor its ancestors amid changing fortunes and a crumbling state. This intimate intergenerational account centers on an annual feast celebrating ancestors and orisásthe life-changing spirits at the heart of Black Atlantic religious life. Based on twenty years of fieldwork, Todd Ramón Ochoas masterful ethnography shows how orisá praise and everyday life have changed in revolutionary Cuba over two decades of economic hardship.
- | Author: Todd Ram�n Ochoa
- | Publisher: University of California Press
- | Publication Date: May 19, 2020
- | Number of Pages: 336 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0520315987
- | ISBN-13: 9780520315983