Book Giveaway! Archives of Conjure: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures, by Solimar Otero
“A poetic, fluid, and compelling book. By producing an ‘archive of conjure’ pieced together through interwoven elements of ethnography, literature, archival notations, bolero music, poetry, and other Afrolatinx inspirations, Solimar Otero provides humanities scholarship with a new, transdisciplinary technique and approach. This is a powerful intervention and must read!”
~Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, author of Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion
In Afrolatinx religious practices such as Cuban Espiritismo, Puerto Rican Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé, the dead tell stories. Communicating with and through mediums’ bodies, they give advice, make requests, and propose future rituals, creating a living archive that is coproduced by the dead. In Archives of Conjure: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures, Solimar Otero explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation of material culture.
This week, we will be exploring more from Archives in Conjure with a guest blog post by Otero on Thursday and an excerpt from the introduction on Friday. We are kicking it off with this drawing to give you a chance to win a free copy!
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