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Paperback El Monte: Notes on the Religions, Magic, and Folklore of the Black and Creole People of Cuba Book

ISBN: 1478018739

ISBN13: 9781478018735

El Monte: Notes on the Religions, Magic, and Folklore of the Black and Creole People of Cuba

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First published in Cuba in 1954 and appearing here in English for the first time, Lydia Cabrera's El Monte is a foundational and iconic study of Afro-Cuban religious and cultural traditions. Drawing on conversations with elderly Afro-Cuban priests who were one or two generations away from the transatlantic slave trade, Cabrera combines ethnography, history, folklore, literature, and botany to provide a panoramic account of the multifaceted...

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