Petrodollar, Bolivarianism, and the Re-Yorubanization of Santería in Chávez’s Socialist Venezuela

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction 7
4. From “Survival” to “Dialogue”: Analytic Tropes in the Study of African-Diaspora Cultural History 33
5. On Talking Past Each Other, Productively: Anthropology and the Black Atlantic, Twenty Years On 57
6. Trans-Atlantic Educational Crossroads: Experiences of Mozambican Students in Cuba 77
7. Turning Back to the Turning Point: The Day of Guanahani in 1492 in Global Perspective 97
8. Theorizing Dominican Modernity: The Crossroads of “Revolution” on Hispaniola 109
9. Migration Flows and the Politics of Exclusion in the French Antilles 121
10. Staging the Caribbean: Dialogues on Diasporic Antillean Music and Dance in Paris during the Jazz Age 141
11. Rasta in Revolution: The Rastafari Movement in Socialist Cuba 165
12. A Transatlantic Restoration of Religion: On the Re-construction of Yoruba and Lúkúmí in Cuban Santería 181
13. Petrodollar, Bolivarianism, and the Re-Yorubanization of Santería in Chávez’s Socialist Venezuela 201
14. CaribBerlin: Multiple Paths in the Religious Life of a German Oricha Priest 225
15. Processes of Cultural Transfer in 19th-Century Literature: The Caribbean within the Context of the Cultural Radiance of Europe, exemplified by France and Spain (1789-1886) 239
16. Scattered Seeds: Transnational Origins of the Decolonization Movement in Jamaica 253
17. Transient Histories: Memory and Movements Within the 19th Century Caribbean 273
18. Contributors 291