Telegraph Spirits and Muertos Chinos: Technologies of Proximity and Distance in the Material Commemoration of the Dead in Cuba

As a technology for the production of historicized spirit forms, espiritismo continually forges its own cosmology from the raw materials of a Cuban syncretistic imagination, with permutations of figures such as the “Congo” and the “Indio” bringing its more visible agencies to the forefront. These yi...

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Main Author: Espírito Santo, Diana (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The Pennsylvania State University Press 2018
In: Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 208-231
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Cuba / Spiritism / Spirits / Materiality / Mediality
RelBib Classification:AE Psychology of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
AZ New religious movements
KBR Latin America
RC Liturgy
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