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Accepted Paper
Of museums, documents and monuments: Afropolitan discourse on spirituality and prosperity among Orisa devotees in 21st century Brazil and Cuba
Félix Ayoh'OMIDIRE
(Obafemi Awolowo University Humboldt University, Berlin)
Paper short abstract
Brazil and Cuba are considered as 2 primary locations within the process of the diasporization of Ifá/Orisa traditions in the New World. The focus of this paper is a close reading of some of the documents and monuments that are today a great legacy of that era and tradition across the Black Atlantic
Paper long abstract
Brazil and Cuba are considered as 2 primary locations within the process of the diasporization of Ifá/Orisa traditions in the New World. The focus of this paper is a close reading of some of the documents and monuments that are today a great legacy of that era and tradition across the Black Atlantic. The metaphor of museums as a 'storehouse' for memories and a warehouse of historic documents shall be deployed in the analyses of the corpus and populations selected for the essay.
The shared future of Afropean lifeworlds
Session 1 Saturday 3 June, 2023, -