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Cuba's rival rituals: 20th-century festivals for the Virgin of Charity and the contested streets of the "nation".

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Cuba's rival rituals: 20th-century festivals for the Virgin of Charity and the contested streets of the "nation".
Author:	Schmidt, Jalane Dawn.
Description:	238 p.
Notes:	Adviser: J. Lorand Matory.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-11, Section: A, page: 4053.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-11A.
Subject:	Religion, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3194453
ISBN:	9780542392542

Cuba's rival rituals: 20th-century festivals for the Virgin of Charity and the contested streets of the "nation".
Schmidt, Jalane Dawn.

Cuba's rival rituals: 20th-century festivals for the Virgin of Charity and the contested streets of the "nation". - 238 p.

Adviser: J. Lorand Matory.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2005.

Drawing upon the author's eighteen months of archival and field research in contemporary Cuba, this dissertation interprets Cuban historical and ethnographic sources pertaining to public festivals in order to form a diachronic study of the twentieth-century history and development of the Cuban cult of the Virgin of Charity, the patron saint of this Caribbean nation. Devotion to the Virgin of Charity spread from marginal roots among poor Afro-Cubans in Oriente (the country's rural, eastern region) to become a religious phenomenon that is regarded as emblematic of Cuba as a whole. The themes of religious "syncretism," racial hybridity, and national political identity are analyzed in chapter case studies of Cuban mass public festivals dedicated to the Virgin of Charity.

ISBN: 9780542392542Subjects--Topical Terms:

212708
Religion, General.

Cuba's rival rituals: 20th-century festivals for the Virgin of Charity and the contested streets of the "nation".
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520 # $a Festivals are important features of Latin American and Caribbean popular culture, and festivals (whether dedicated to a patron saint or civic rites) often do the "heavy lifting" of objectifying culture and providing convincing examples of the nation. But these festivals take place in the streets---a location Cubans often identify with "popular" culture in its most competitive, multivocal, and at times chaotic forms. This fact often undercuts festival planners' claims that their event "represents" the "nation." Since festivals often serve to model ideal forms of religious and political comportment, these performative events can become occasions for their planners to respond to off-stage rivals. Some of these "rivals" are yet other festivals, and festivals can be said to be engaged in conversation, and even argumentation, with other festivals. Festivals draw upon the ritual vocabulary, verbal cadences, physical gestures, and symbols of still other public rites and performances (and the memory and presumed participation of attendees at these other events) in order to establish and strengthen their rhetorical power. Patron saint festivals, civic rites, and the rituals of local religions, therefore, should be examined and interpreted in relation to one another, since to examine any of these performances in isolation would render a truncated account. Particularly in situations of political tension, "rival rituals" vie for interpretive supremacy of the nation.
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