5.26.22 Deporting the Sacred: Circulation of Abakuá Material Worlds across the Late Spanish Empire
Автор: Cuban Research Institute (FIU)
Загружено: 2022-05-27
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This lecture explores the movement of ritual objects from Cuba to Africa and Europe, specifically those belonging to the Abakuá, an all-male Cuban secret society with roots in West Africa. Sophia Kitlinski addresses two "deportations." Firstly, colonial officials seized and dispatched Abakuá objects to elite museums and private collections in Spain. Secondly, the administration deported Abakuá members to prisons and penal colonies in Spain and Spanish colonies in northern and central Africa.
This talk raises several questions: How did various historical actors—from government ministers to fugitive slaves—mobilize Abakuá ritual objects to contest, mediate, and affirm Spanish imperial policy? How did the wide appeal of these spiritual objects reveal the intentions and limits of Spanish imperial practice? Finally, how can considering the agency of the objects themselves in self-fashioning and community building shift our understandings of power relations across the late nineteenth-century Spanish empire?
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