... Indians shrine creole El Cobre Oriente ...

... This chapter recaps the historiography of accounts of the finding of the Virgin’s effigy in 1612 in eastern Cuba, and the subsequent seventeenth- and eighteenth-century growth of her cult among Indians and then the enslaved African and black creole miners in El Cobre who constructed her shrines...

... Nancy Rose Hunt, “Lorry Dreams and Slave Ship Disintegrations: Motion, Madness, and Incongruent Planes in History”: Motion and immobility may converge around transport conveyances in states and textures of mind and madness. This chapter juxtaposes 1950s Gold Coast lorries and commercial shrines...

... who constructed her shrines. An examination of how devotees’ perceptions of race have influenced the social history of the cult since its inception counters the temptation to regard “creolization” as a unifying harmonization, rather than a contested process. Scholars of African American religions...

... Disintegrations: Motion, Madness, and Incongruent Planes in History”: Motion and immobility may converge around transport conveyances in states and textures of mind and madness. This chapter juxtaposes 1950s Gold Coast lorries and commercial shrines with Guinea slave ships of the 1790s: thus, postwar melancholic...

... This chapter introduces aspects of the sociopolitical, economic, and physical conditions of the Pelourinho neighborhood. By the mid-1990s the ongoing reforms of the Pelourinho had divided the neighborhood into two main areas: a gleaming restored shrine to Bahian culture and an area of decaying...

... The political instability of late 1950s Cuba occasioned many anguished appeals to the Virgin. As Fidel Castro’s rebels took up positions in the mountains of eastern Cuba to combat Batista’s army, El Cobre was the site of some skirmishes, damaging the Virgin’s shrine. Cuban political discord...

... Maria N’koi is identified with a healing template for nervousness, with trembling trees. This healer provoked insurgency when conscription for Great War battles disturbed. Two territories conflicted when soldiers marched through embattled cannabis fields to storm her shrine. An administrator...

..., had migrated to Germany, was interned at the civilian camp in Ruhleben during World War I. He also worked as a language assistant at the University of Hamburg. On a recording he discusses the violence of colonial missions and the destruction of a shrine in Togo in 1913. Bischoff also impersonates...

... anguished appeals to the Virgin. As Fidel Castro’s rebels took up positions in the mountains of eastern Cuba to combat Batista’s army, El Cobre was the site of some skirmishes, damaging the Virgin’s shrine. Cuban political discord and civil war often transpired in the streets: the Batista regime alternately...