Sacred Spaces and Religious Traditions in Oriente Cuba

Index

205 Index The letter f followed by a number refers to a figure in the Plates section. The letter m following a page number refers to a map. The letter n following a page number refers to a note. The number following the n indicates the number of the note on that page. Abakuá, 15–16 Africa, 25, 26; epistemology and, 1–2. See also Africans; Kongo Kingdom African Atlantic Research Team, xi, 9 African Religions and Philosophy (Mbiti), 43–44 Africans, 3; Amerindians and, 37, 84–85;concept of power and, 53–54; concept of time and, 49–51; cosmic orientation and, 45–47; cosmic orientations and, 39–40; Cuban public holidays and, 164–65; Cuban social order and, 24–25; cultural interactions and, 42–43; geo-circularity and, 112; migrations to Oriente from Haiti and, 106–7; natural phenomena and, 46–48; nature of being and, 48–49; Oriente and, 25; religion and, 43–44; revelation and possession and, 54–56; ritual and, 56–58; shared foundational knowledge and, 43; Spanish Catholicism and, 164–65 Afro­Cuban Religious Experience (Matibag), 7 Aimes, Hubert H. S., 24 Alarcón, Alexis, 8 Amerindians, Africans and, 37, 84–85 Angola, 27 animal sacrifice: espiritismo Cruzado and, 130; Palo Monte/Palo Mayombe tradition and, 96; Vodú and, 117, 121 Arará, 104 Arawak, 22 Arnaz, Desi, 179n42 Ayorinde, Christine, 6 babalú Ayé, f15, 165 bakongo, 27–32; culture of, 28, 183n26; in Oriente, 29 baracoa, attack on, 85 barnet, Miguel, 6, 8 barth, fredrik, 166 being, nature of, 48–49 206 index bembé drum parties, 148–49, 152, 154, 179n42; Muertéra bembé de Sao and, 154–55; palenques and, 87–88 bettelheim, Judith, 110 Birth of African American Culture (Mintz, Price), 14 bourdieu, Pierre, 69 brandon, george: Santeria from Africa to the New World, 7 brown, David H., 166–67; Santería Enthroned, 7, 172–73 brujos de Limón, 111–12 cabildo, 109, 122, 184n13 Cabrera, Lydia, 6 Canizares, Raul: Walking with the Night, 7 Carabalí, 27, 29, 87 Carpentier, Alejo, 108 Casa del Caribe, 88 Casas de Cultura, 72–73, 182n14; in baracoa, 85, 182n14 Casas de Templo, 66 Castellanos, Isabel, 6 Castellanos, Jorge, 6 Castro, fidel Ruiz, 44 Cathedral at Cobre, 174 Catholicism, 174; Africans and, 164–65 cazuela, f17, 88–89; espiritismo Cruzado and, 130, 158; Muertéra bembé de Sao and, f17, 156–58; Palo Monte/Palo Mayombe tradition and, f7, 100, 103, 158 Chosen Prayers (Kardec), 141–42 Ciboney, 22 Ciego de Avila, 105 cofradias, palenques and, 90–91, 102, 109–10 Columbus, Christopher, 22–23 concepts: indigenous religion, 36–37; intentionality, 37; religion, 36; transculturation , 38 contact zones, 3, 38, 162 cosmic orientation, 14–15, 45–47, 163–65; Africans and, 43, 45–47; language and, 44; symbolic representations and, 41–42 Council of baptist Workers and Students, 34–35 counter/re-signification in practice, 167–69, 187n18 Creciente de Valmaseda, 137 creeds, 44–45. See also specific traditions Cuba: 1959 Revolution and, 34, 179n43; economy of, 24; geographic and historic contours of, 22–36; geography of, 22, 23; Haitian immigrants and, 112; indigenous religions in, 15–16; slavery and, 33; social order of, 24–25; Spanish immigration and, 22–23; “Special Period” and, 33–35; Ten years’ War and, 125, 136; United States and, 33–34; western and eastern regions of, 28–29. See also Oriente Dathorne, O. R., 117 Dayan, Joan: Haiti, History, and the Gods, 116 Díaz, María elena, 27, 31 Duharte Jiménez, Rafael, 24–25 elegguá, 130, 132, 172 espiritismo, 1–2, 8–9, 44–45; Africa and, 124–25; African customs and, 126; families of, 126–28; Muertéra bembé de Sao tradition and, 128; race and, 13; religious legitimacy and, 125–26; women in, 12 espiritismo Cruzado, f14, 127, 128–35, 143–44; Africana and, 133–34; animal sacrifice and, 130; belief foundations of, 129–31; cazuela and, 158; celebrants and believers and, 129–30; doctrine and, 131; elegguá and, 130, 132; espiritismo de Cordon and, 143–44; Indian images and, 133; name derivation of, 130; Palo Monte/Palo Mayombe and, 130; plurality and, 170; Regla de Ocha/Lucumí and, 130, 133; sacred spaces and, 131–35; spirit images and, 132–33; uniqueness of, 131; water and, 133 espiritismo de Caridad, 127 espiritismo de Cordon, 127, 135–43; belief foundations of, 138–40; charity work and, 140; doctrine 207 index and, 139; espiritismo Cruzado...