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Religion in the Kitchen - Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions (Hardcover)
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Religion in the Kitchen - Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions (Hardcover)
Series: North American Religions
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Honorable Mention, 2019 Barbara T. Christian Literary Award, given
by the Caribbean Studies Association Winner, 2017 Clifford Geertz
Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, presented by the Society for
the Anthropology of Religion section of the American
Anthropological Association Finalist, 2017 Albert J. Raboteau Prize
for the Best Book in Africana Religions presented by the Journal of
Africana Religions An examination of the religious importance of
food among Caribbean and Latin American communities 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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