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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Orisha"”.
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Santeria – von afrikanischen Orishas über kubanische Heilige zur amerikanischen „Lifestyle-Kultur“
… Diaspora. Dabei werden die pluralen Formen der Orisha-Religion der Yoruba in Afrika im Hinblick auf ihre Funktion als religiöses Fundament der Santeria untersucht. Im Folgenden wird die Entstehung der Santeria auf Kuba, bedingt durch die Einfuhr einer Vielzahl von Yoruba Sklaven, analysiert. …
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Reescrevendo Bahia de Todos os Santos à luz e cores: tradução intersemiótica do romance de Jorge Amado para a fotografia
… unexpected supplements such as the figure of the Orisha Eshu as a translator and the crossroad as a starting point or gathering place of possible paths, of choices to be made, of plural meanings.
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Guyanese comfa: arts of imagination
… Santeria, Haitian Vodou, Trinidadian Shango/Orisha/Spiritual Baptist and Jamaican Myal/Kumina practices. There has been little research on Guyanese religious and cultural practices. Kean Gibson's Comfa Religion and Creole Language in a Caribbean Community (2001) appears to be the most …
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Pan African narratives: sites of resistance in the Black diaspora
Africa as a point of reference for Africans dispersed from her shores and their descendants in the Diaspora has perpetuated discourse of longing and ambivalence. For centuries these various sentiments have emerged in Black literary expressions. The quest of this study is to advance Black narrative …