A Party for Lazarus
Six Generations of Ancestral Devotion in a Cuban Town| By: | Todd Ramón Ochoa |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9780520315983 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780520974111 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2020 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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A Party for Lazarus is the story of a Cuban family, six generations removed from slavery, struggling to honor its ancestors amid changing fortunes and a crumbling state. This intimate intergenerational account centers on an annual feast celebrating ancestors and orisás—the life-changing spirits at the heart of Black Atlantic religious life. Based on twenty years of fieldwork, Todd Ramón Ochoa’s masterful ethnography shows how orisá praise and everyday life have changed in revolutionary Cuba over two decades of economic hardship.