Ochun can be the oricha on a male or female human head, so she has both sons and daughters in the religion. She was an authority on santeria and other afrocuban religion. He owned a popular literary journal, cuba y america, where lydia got her first experience as a. Destacada etnologa, investigadora y narradora cubana. Yemaya is the great mother who lives and rules over the seas. The best books on the internet for osha, ifa, and palo in english and spanishdirect from cubas elders. Gender, sexuality, and creativity in the latinao and. Afrocuban religious experience ufdc image array 2 university. Schwarze geschichten aus kuba di cabrera, lydia e una grande selezione di libri, arte e articoli da collezione disponibile su abebooks. Pdf adobe acrobat download lidia cabrera oshun yemaya pdf free book library. Oba olo ocha as quoted in lydia cabreras yemaya y ochun.
Yemay y och n kariocha, iyalorichas y olorichas lydia cabrera. Abakua 1958, otan iyebiye 1970, and yemaya and ochun 1974, unfortunately, not all of her. Lydia cabrera has 38 books on goodreads with 1008 ratings. Lydia cabrera in paris, 1935 strong need to establish contact with the afrocuban community. From inle, the doctor of the orichas, she learned about healing. Lydia cabrera was interested in afrocuban folklore. The above quotes by cabrera and quiroga serve as useful points of entry to consider the queer nature of the performance of spiritual identities in. They also relate in their works the shifting and fluid nature of yemoja and the divinity in her manifestations and in the lives. Lydia cabrera was a cuban independent ethnographer.
Lydia cabreras most popular book is afrocuban tales. The preservation of afrocuban culture in the writings of lydia cabrera. A study trip to the lydia cabrera archive at the university of. Lydia cabrera books in english marketing management kotler pdf espanol, lydia cabrera. From childhood she was immersed into the magic realism of afrocuban reality through the nanas who took care of her and fed her with the folktales, religious stories, legends, and rhymes that filled her. Lydia cabrera 19011991, chicana scholar and writer gloria e. Water is essential to life, so without yemaya, life on earth wouldnt be possible. Her punishments can be terrible when shes outraged, but shes fair minded and forgiving when proper remorse is shown. Although shes maternal and nurturing, shes also fierce. Book pdf file lidia cabrera oshun yemaya download free at huge book. Cabrera, lydia 18991991 a native of havana, cuba, the writer, lydia cabrera, was born into an educated and socially prominent family. Oba olo ocha as quoted in lydia cabreras yemaya y ochun2.
Lydia cabrera may 20, 1899 in havana, cuba september 19, 1991 in miami, florida was a cuban independent ethnographer cabrera was a cuban writer and literary activist. Ochun has talent as a diviner, too, and her children are good at throwing and interpreting the dilogun cowrie shells. In the above quotes, poet audre lorde and folklorist lydia. Our site offers the best services and products available on the worldwide web. Lydia cabrera y su yemaya yochun incomparable compendio. Cabrera, the most important thing was to stay true to the version of the investigative material that she had gathered, and for that material to not have passed by what she calls.
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