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Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions

Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions [Hardback]

by Elizabeth Perez

    • Author

      Elizabeth Perez

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      NYU Press

    • Published

      February 2016

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      Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions

      Today's Price £47.11



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      Before honey can be offered to the Afro-Cuban deity Ochun, it must be tasted, to prove to her that it is good. In African-inspired religions throughout the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States, such gestures instill the attitudes that turn participants into practitioners. Acquiring deep knowledge of the diets of the gods and ancestors constructs adherents identities; to learn to fix the gods favorite dishes is to be seasoned into their service.In this innovative work, Elizabeth Perez reveals how seemingly trivial "micropractices" such as the preparation of sacred foods, are complex rituals in their own right. Drawing on years of ethnographic research in Chicago among practitioners of Lucumi, the transnational tradition popularly known as Santeria, Perez focuses on the behind-the-scenes work of the primarily women and gay men responsible for feeding the gods. She reveals how cooking and talking around the kitchen table have played vital socializing roles in Black Atlantic religions.Entering the world of divine desires and the varied flavors that speak to them, this volume takes a fresh approach to the anthropology of religion. Its richly textured portrait of a predominantly African-American Lucumi community reconceptualizes race, gender, sexuality, and affect in the formation of religious identity, proposing that every religion coalesces and sustains itself through its own secret recipe of micropractices. "

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      • Author

        Elizabeth Perez

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        NYU Press

      • Published

        February 2016

      • Weight

        718g

      • Page Count

        320

      • Dimensions

        153 x 229 x 26 mm

      • ISBN

        9781479861613

      • ISBN-10

        1479861618

      • Eden Code

        4384156

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      • Author/Creator: Elizabeth Perez

      • ISBN: 9781479861613

      • Publisher: NYU Press

      • Release Date: February 2016

      • Weight: 718g

      • Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 26 mm

      • Eden Code: 4384156


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