| Contents |
Introduction: Unfolding Layers -- Part 1. Situated Narratives, Embodied Memories: Living Oral Histories -- Theories and Methods of Artists Performing Fieldwork -- The Trouble with Arar or All Things Religious Belong Together -- Perico and Agramonte: Sensorial Stories / Jill Flanders Crosby -- Perico / Jill Flanders Crosby and Melba N̐uu̐unez Isalbe -- The Rememberer / J. T. Torres -- Agramonte / Jill Flanders Crosby -- Becoming History: The Many Lives of Justo Zulueta -- The Notebooks / J. T. Torres -- French Gods and the Aw n: Narrating Armando Zulueta / Jill Flanders Crosby -- Dzodze: Dancing with Dashi / Jill Flanders Crosby -- Adjodogou: In the Land of Vodu / Jill Flanders Crosby -- Acts of Storytelling -- Part 2. Secrets Under the Skin: Sensing the Moment at the Intersection of Art and Research -- Narrating the Secrets Under the Skin Installation / Jill Flanders Crosby -- The Artist's Accidental Proof: The Palm Frond and the Wood Block / Susan Matthews -- Photographic Insights: Ceremonial Ritual in Ghana and Togo / Brian Jeffery -- in listening/in response / Marianne M. Kim -- Witnessing and Sensing Stories / Melba N̐uu̐unez Isalbe -- Conclusion: Participating in Metaculture / Jill Flanders Crosby and J. T. Torres -- Afterword / Jill Flanders Crosby |
| Abstract |
"Through a revolutionary ethnographic approach that foregrounds storytelling and performance, this book explores shared ritual traditions between the Anlo-Ewe people of West Africa and their descendants, the Arar̐ua of Cuba, who were brought to the island in the Atlantic slave trade"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Flanders Crosby, Jill. Situated narratives and sacred dance Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2021] 9781683402404 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2020045485 |
| ISBN | 9781683402060 |
| ISBN | 1683402065 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
