{"product_id":"archives-of-conjure-stories-of-the-dead-in-afrolatinx-cultures-9780231194334","title":"Archives of Conjure: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Afrolatinx religious practices such as Cuban Espiritismo, Puerto Rican Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé, the dead tell stories. Communicating with and through mediums' bodies, they give advice, make requests, and propose future rituals, creating a living archive that is coproduced by the dead. In this book, Solimar Otero explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation of material culture. By examining spirit mediumship through a Caribbean cross-cultural poetics, she shows how divinities and ancestors serve as active agents in shaping the experiences of gender, sexuality, and race. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOtero argues that what she calls archives of conjure are produced through residual transcriptions or reverberations of the stories of the dead whose archives are stitched, beaded, smoked, and washed into official and unofficial repositories. She investigates how sites like the ocean, rivers, and institutional archives create connected contexts for unlocking the spatial activation of residual transcriptions. Drawing on over ten years of archival research and fieldwork in Cuba, Otero centers the storytelling practices of Afrolatinx women and LGBTQ spiritual practitioners alongside Caribbean literature and performance. \u003ci\u003eArchives of Conjure\u003c\/i\u003e offers vital new perspectives on ephemerality, temporality, and material culture, unraveling undertheorized questions about how spirits shape communities of practice, ethnography, literature, and history and revealing the deeply connected nature of art, scholarship, and worship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSolimar Otero is professor of folklore in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eAfro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World\u003c\/i\u003e (2010) and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eYemoja: Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in Latino\/a and Afro-Atlantic Diasporas\u003c\/i\u003e (2013).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318595064082,"sku":"9780231194334","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_08c24a2a-b2bf-414f-9165-3842e01d11f8.jpg?v=1727558535","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/archives-of-conjure-stories-of-the-dead-in-afrolatinx-cultures-9780231194334","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}