The Light Inside : Abakua Society Arts and Cuban Cultural History (Paperback)

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Part I: "The Light Inside": Abakua Society Arts and Modern Cuban Cultural History Introduction: Meanings, Methods, and the Cultural Biography of Things Abakua 2. The Abakua Society and the African Society Diaspora 3. Abakua Altar Arts: Ekue, Representation, and the Banner of Regla’s Efori Enongo 4. Cloth and Signs: West African Ukara and the Iconography of Regla’s Efori Enongo 5. Altars, Offices, and Multiple Meanings 6. "Symbolic Drums:" Innovations and Inventions 7. The Iremes and Their Sacos Part II: El Nanigo "Graduates" 8. Pictures, Performances, and the Police: Changing Contexts for Costumbrista Arts 9. Struggle over Possession of the Secret: The Museuming of the Nanigos’ "Most Sacred Effects" 10. From Atavism to Modern Primitivism 11. From Primitivism to Folklore 12. We were Teaching How to Ask the Black Man About Very Private Personal Things: Afrocubana, the Triumph of the Revolution, and Socialist Folklore 13: "The Ethnographic Museum" and the Cuban Revolution 14. Conclusion: The Abakua Society and the National Narrative Notes References Index