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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)
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.