Abstract
Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History, written by Kristina Wirtz
Highlights
Performing Afro-Cuba is an impressive study of the way stories about the past shape processes of racialization that continue into present-day Cuba
“Cultural forms and persons marked as ‘African’ have come to be valued primarily as signs of primordial authenticity and become the ‘stuff’ of Cuban folklore” (p. 46), recontextualizing elements drawn from Afro-Cuban religious practice
Drawings of dancers, and considers stereotypes that often emerge in performances, such as the Maroon, the African witch or sorcerer, and the spirit or orisha possessed
Summary
Kristina Wirtz Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History. Performing Afro-Cuba is an impressive study of the way stories about the past shape processes of racialization that continue into present-day Cuba. Music, festival, religious ritual, and the accompanying visual imagery performed on a variety of Cuban stages constitutes an “anthropological study of history making as a dynamic cultural process of situating subjectivity in space-time”
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