Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Santeria"”.
-
Santeria – von afrikanischen Orishas über kubanische Heilige zur amerikanischen „Lifestyle-Kultur“
… beschäftigt sich mit dem Entwicklungsprozess der Santeria im Rahmen der Afrikanischen 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 …
-
Beyond the Threshold: Allusions to the Òrìsà in Ana Mendieta's Silueta Series
… particularly strong in the Afro-Cuban religion Santeria, a creolized form of the Òrìsà tradition of the Yoruba of West Africa introduced to the Americas during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. While scholars have noted Mendieta's incorporation of Santeria in her art, a thorough analysis of the …
-
LA FIESTA DEL ESPIRITU SANTO: AN ORIGINAL WORK FOR CHOIR, SOLOISTS, AND SMALL ENSEMBLE INFLUENCED BY THE SANTERIA MUSIC OF THE AFRICAN-DOMINICAN COMMUNITY IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
<p><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p> <p>This study examines the role of Santería music as practiced by African Dominicans in Villa Mella, a neighborhood of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. This musical tradition comes from the culture and religion of the Yoruba people who were brought as slaves from …
-
The Unfortunate Resurrection of Lazarus
… there were spirits and saints and demons and Santeria rituals, and curses were real. This book will explore our father's prejudices and superstitions and his refusal to acknowledge his son's demons, in an effort to find the reasons why his son, my brother, Jose, eventually killed the mother …
-
Ana Mendieta- a search for identity
… the pagan-inflected, Cuban Catholicism known as Santeria. Tying her body to the land is how she felt an abundance of power and found her real niche. Mendieta utilized the earth and the land for most of her artistic career, which spanned from roughly 1972 to 1985, when she fell to her untimely …
-
Citizenship, Religion and Revolution in Cuba
… practitioners of Ocha-Ifa — also known as Santeria — employed as they continued practicing the religion of their ancestors and participating in the national projects of the twentieth century. Focusing on the period after the 1959 revolution, this dissertation argues that revolutionary …
-
Religious Sculpture of the Chiloé Archipelago, From the 17th to the 21st Century
… Isidoro Vázquez de Acuña’s 1994 volume Santeria de Chiloe: ensayo y catastro remains the only catalogue of Chilote sculpture. Though the author includes photographs of a vast array of works, he does not attempt to place the sculptures within a chronology, or consider their place within …
-
Guyanese comfa: arts of imagination
… in this area has tended to focus on Cuban 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 …