Cultural Mestizaje in the Essays and Poetry of Nancy Morejon

González, Flora

doi:10.1353/cal.2006.0012

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“…One of the most interesting interlocutors of Landes work is anthropologist J. Lorand Matory. His own work with priests of Candomblé refutes Landes’ matriarchal claims, and his Black Atlantic Religion both brings to light and grapples with the legacies of her early work on male religious leaders (González , 260‐65). Also of significance is how both Landes and Matory navigate sexuality in Candomblé contexts in regards to especially male homosexual priests (Matory , 207‐212)…”

Section: Ruth Landes: a Daughter Of Oxúmmentioning

confidence: 99%

Residual Transcriptions: Ruth Landes and the Archive of Conjure

Otero

2018

Transforming Anthropology

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This article considers the residual transcripts generated by a female ethnographer, Ruth Landes, through her notations, poetry, scribblings and other forms of data found in the archives. I show how these residual transcriptions are clues that serve as testaments to experiential bonds—both visible and yet hidden in Afrolatinx religions. Residual transcriptions operate as living archives that pose methodological challenges to how we think about the connections between ephemerality, temporality, and material culture. I consider the unofficial transcriptions found in an archive such as marginalia and scraps of paper with scribbled reflections and more data‐driven field notes as sites from which to theorize a new approach to archival and ethnographic methods. These notations, I argue, create their own pattern of events that make one aware of the alternate temporalities that archives can produce. Drawing on Afrolatinx ritual aesthetics and practices, specifically the spiritual séance tradition, I show how residual transcriptions tell circuitous stories about unverifiable yet vital connections.

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Section: Ruth Landes: a Daughter Of Oxúmmentioning

confidence: 99%