Voice of the Leopard African Secret Societies and Cuba |
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Author:
| Miller, Ivor L. Bassey, Bassey E. |
Series title: | Caribbean Studies Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-934110-83-6 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2009 |
Publisher: | University Press of Mississippi
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $92.00 |
Book Description:
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Shows how African migrants and their political fraternities played a formative role in the history of Cuba. Ivor L. Miller's extensive fieldwork in Cuba and West Africa documents ritual languages and practices that survived the Middle Passage and evolved into a unifying charter for transplanted slaves and their successors.
Shows how African migrants and their political fraternities played a formative role in the history of Cuba. Ivor L. Miller's extensive fieldwork in Cuba and West Africa documents ritual languages and practices that survived the Middle Passage and evolved into a unifying charter for transplanted slaves and their successors.