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... Cuba African-inspired praise bembé feasts origami fold becoming ...

... In the countryside of central Cuba, African-inspired feasts conjoin West African, Kongo, and Catholic sources in a complex musical, theatrical, and affective praise style that prizes new shapes and new fates. This is an ethnographic encounter with the problem of mutually affirmed social...

... This chapter is a review of Alfonso Cuarón’s autobiographical movie Roma (2018), set in Mexico City and incorporating the massacre that took place on the feast day of Corpus Christi in 1971. The chapter explores the film’s attention to class relations, in particular between the bourgeois...

... features of the religious ceremonies is the baking of small, childlike figurines ( t’antawawas ; literally, children made of bread) representing the souls of the departed and a feast with alcoholic libations and festooned cornucopia of fruit and bread. The ceremonies culminate on the 2nd, when family...

... against everyone who did not join their cause. The chapter shows that the Pijaos mobilized Spaniards’ own stereotypes and fears of cannibals against them. What the Spaniards saw as a massive feast of bodies was in fact the incorporation of new peoples and groups into their political framework...

... of Granada and waged war against everyone who did not join their cause. The chapter shows that the Pijaos mobilized Spaniards’ own stereotypes and fears of cannibals against them. What the Spaniards saw as a massive feast of bodies was in fact the incorporation of new peoples and groups into their political...

... on Mexican and also pre-Hispanic cooking. Diana Kennedy cuisines of Mexico pre-Hispanic cooking mole tamales This chapter is a review of Alfonso Cuarón’s autobiographical movie Roma (2018), set in Mexico City and incorporating the massacre that took place on the feast day of Corpus Christi...

... in heaven. In Andean popular culture, one of the distinctive features of the religious ceremonies is the baking of small, childlike figurines ( t’antawawas ; literally, children made of bread) representing the souls of the departed and a feast with alcoholic libations and festooned cornucopia of fruit...