Ever since its emergence in colonial-era Cuba, Afro-Cuban Santería (or Lucumí) has
displayed a complex dynamic of continuity and change in its institutions, rituals, and …

In 1992 Smithsonian anthropologist Michael Atwood Mason traveled to Cuba for initiation as
a priest into the Santería religion. Since then he has created an active oricha “house” and …

Scholars in folklore and anthropology are more directly involved in various aspects of
medicine—such as medical education, clinical pastoral care, and negotiation of transcultural …

The extent to which folk medicine is practiced today by Hispanics is not clearly established.
Probably its popularity varies in different regions of the country.... But the one thing that is …

We offer an in-depth ethnographic exploration of Nuosu divination, examining its underlying
rationale from cognitive perspectives and highlighting its instrumental and empirical …

This paper examines Lucumi healing practices in re lation to anthropological
understandings of how symbolic heal ing works. This essay focuses upon divination …

La santería en México se difundió como una opción religiosa desde al menos la década de
los setenta. Se trataba sin embargo de una difusión incipiente cuyo epicentro lo constituía la …

In this thesis, I seek to wed my experiences of activism, scholarship, and Pagan witchcraft
community together through storied theory, in order to give an honest account of my own …

The representation of human speech through non-verbal surrogates, defined as
'communication systems which replace the use of speech'(Crystal, 2009: 447) has been the …

A significant number of practitioners of modern alternative spiritualities adopt rituals,
histories, and worldviews from at least one culture that is not their own. The widespread …