Author: Pablo Vargas-LugoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
CongoBravo
Author: Pablo Vargas-LugoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Cachita's Streets
Author: Jalane D. SchmidtPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822375311
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Cuba’s patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, also called Cachita, is a potent symbol of Cuban national identity. Jalane D. Schmidt shows how groups as diverse as Indians and African slaves, Spanish colonial officials, Cuban independence soldiers, Catholic authorities and laypeople, intellectuals, journalists and artists, practitioners of spiritism and Santería, activists, politicians, and revolutionaries each have constructed and disputed the meanings of the Virgin. Schmidt examines the occasions from 1936 to 2012 when the Virgin's beloved, original brown-skinned effigy was removed from her national shrine in the majority black- and mixed-race mountaintop village of El Cobre and brought into Cuba's cities. There, devotees venerated and followed Cachita's image through urban streets, amassing at large-scale public ceremonies in her honor that promoted competing claims about Cuban religion, race, and political ideology. Schmidt compares these religious rituals to other contemporaneous Cuban street events, including carnival, protests, and revolutionary rallies, where organizers stage performances of contested definitions of Cubanness. Schmidt provides a comprehensive treatment of Cuban religions, history, and culture, interpreted through the prism of Cachita.
Order JO 7340.1Z
Author: Elections in Africa
Author: Dieter NohlenPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191522678
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Elections have always been an integral part of post-independence African politics and have assumed utmost importance in the course of recent democratisation processes. However, comparative research on the political development in Africa lacks reliable electoral data. Elections in Africa fills this cap. The handbook is the only reliable source for African elections from independence to present. In the first volume of this series, Elections in Africa presents a country-by-country study of African nations that provides a comparative introduction on elections and electoral systems. Each country chapter examines the history of the institutional and electoral arrangements, the evolution of suffrage and current electoral provisions. Precise and exhaustive data on national elections and referendums are presented comparatively. The book provides a definitive and comprehensive set of data on elections and electoral systems in order to facilitate comparative research. Data is presented in a systematic manner allowing for both historical and cross-national comparisons.
Elements of General History, ancient and modern ... The fifth edition, corrected and improved
Author: Alexander Fraser TYTLER (Lord Woodhouselee.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Art Nexus
Author: Geographical landmarks
Author: George William KingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Zoo
Author: Designators for Aircraft Operating Agencies, Aeronautical Authorities and Services
Author: International Civil Aviation OrganizationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Airlines
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
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