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“A major empirical contribution to the debate about antirepresentationalism and posthumanism that has been agitating all of the discipline of anthropology in contemporary years.”—Stephan Palmié, creator of The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion
“The most provocative and complete portrayal of up to date Cuban espiritismo to be had. It underscores the embodied character of espiritista practices and offers a dynamic portrayal of espiritista mediums’ the most important roles within a complex of Afro-Cuban religions that includes ocha, palo monte, and other faiths.”—Reinaldo L. Román, creator of Governing Spirits: Religion, Miracles, and Spectacles in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898–1956
“To read this book is to go into into an it appears alien world and yet find that it makes complete sense, and because of this Developing the Dead is a model of the anthropological enterprise.”—Charles Stewart, creator of Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece
Based on extensive fieldwork among espiritistas and their patrons in Havana, this book makes the surprising claim that Spiritist practices are fundamentally a project of developing the self.
When mediums cultivate relationships between the living and the dead, argues Diana Espírito Santo, they develop, learn, sense, dream, and connect to more than one spirits (muertos), expanding the borders of the self. This understanding of selfhood is radically different from Enlightenment ideas of an autonomous, bounded self and holds fascinating implications for prophecy, healing, and self-consciousness. Developing the Dead shows how Espiritismo’s self-making process permeates all aspects of life, not only for its own practitioners but also for those of other Afro-Cuban religions.
“The most provocative and complete portrayal of up to date Cuban espiritismo to be had. It underscores the embodied character of espiritista practices and offers a dynamic portrayal of espiritista mediums’ the most important roles within a complex of Afro-Cuban religions that includes ocha, palo monte, and other faiths.”—Reinaldo L. Román, creator of Governing Spirits: Religion, Miracles, and Spectacles in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898–1956
“To read this book is to go into into an it appears alien world and yet find that it makes complete sense, and because of this Developing the Dead is a model of the anthropological enterprise.”—Charles Stewart, creator of Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece
Based on extensive fieldwork among espiritistas and their patrons in Havana, this book makes the surprising claim that Spiritist practices are fundamentally a project of developing the self.
When mediums cultivate relationships between the living and the dead, argues Diana Espírito Santo, they develop, learn, sense, dream, and connect to more than one spirits (muertos), expanding the borders of the self. This understanding of selfhood is radically different from Enlightenment ideas of an autonomous, bounded self and holds fascinating implications for prophecy, healing, and self-consciousness. Developing the Dead shows how Espiritismo’s self-making process permeates all aspects of life, not only for its own practitioners but also for those of other Afro-Cuban religions.
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