{"product_id":"adeshinas-cuba-the-yoruba-lukumi-1820-1959","title":"Adeshina's Cuba: The Yorùbá Lukumí, 1820-1959, A Secret African History.","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 110%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%; font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif;\"\u003eTwo Volumes. 1386 pages. 164 tables. 660 photographs. Sold only as a set. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 110%;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 110%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%; font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif;\"\u003eAdeshina’s Cuba \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%; font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif;\"\u003eis a comprehensive history of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%; font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif;\"\u003eLukumí\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%; font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif;\"\u003ereligion on the island, 1820-1959. In Cuba, the \u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #0e2841; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%; font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif;\"\u003eYorùbá\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e were known as the Lukumí. Based on more than thirty-five years of oral and archival research (1991-2025), this work reveals the secret history that the Spanish slave colony, the modern Cuban Republic, and the Communist Revolution sought to erase. It is a rich study for scholars, students, and African Diaspora descendants. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 110%;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 110%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%; font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVolume I\u003c\/strong\u003e is a deeply researched history of Adeshina's world in slavery and freedom and his crucial alliances and accomplishments in Regla, Havana, and Matanzas. Learn about the great ancestors Atanda, Ifa Bi, Ifa Omi, Ade Bi, Aigoro, Yeye T' Olokun, Lagueni (Matilde Zayas), Teresa Ariosa, Latuan, Belen Gonzalez, and many, many more. Hundreds of ritual and family genealogies of Babalawos and Olorishas (Orisha priests) document the founding and growth of the Lukumí religion over more than 150 years. All in secret. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 110%;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 110%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%; font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVolume II\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%; font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif;\"\u003eis a celebration of African Diaspora family history and biography. It reveals the sacred lives of If\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #0e2841; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%; font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif;\"\u003eá\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e and Osha priests and priestesses (Babalawos and Olorishas) in more than 250 biographical essays, organized lineage by lineage, from Havana and Matanzas to Palmira and Santiago  de Cuba. The biographies are detailed essays, and together they represent an unprecedented achievement in the African Diaspora literature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 110%;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 110%;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003eScholarly Praise for \u003cem\u003eAdeshina's Cuba\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 110%;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003eThis is a truly astonishing book, written with unusual honesty and respect. It is the proof of what a gifted, eminently patient, historically minded anthropologist can accomplish. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: 'm_-6541393604545901395_\\[14400\\,\\[423\\,\\[\\]\\,Ȧ';\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eAdeshina’s Cuba\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bookmark: 'm_-6541393604545901395_\\[14400\\,\\[423\\,\\[\\]\\,Ȧ';\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e should quickly take its place among the most lasting works in Afro-Cuban studies and rank high among all studies ever made of the trajectories and legacies of captured and enslaved Africans and their descendants in the Americas. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 110%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e-- \u003cb\u003eRichard Price\u003c\/b\u003e, Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor Emeritus, Collage of William and Mary. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 110%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 110%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrown’s work demonstrates how history is created from the bottom up by the agency of generations of ordinary people living their lives as religious devotees despite shifting currents of opposition, persecution, exploitation and indifference. A magnificent achievement. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 110%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e-- \u003cb\u003eGeorge Brandon\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor Emeritus, City University of New York. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 110%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 110%;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eAdeshina’s Cuba is a monument of long-term, dogged fieldwork and archival labor that will be a gift to practitioners and researchers of Afro-Cuban religions alike for generations to come… This is a book that does more than merely genuflect to the idea of decolonizing the archive; it actually takes part in mediating and maintaining the sacred powers it interprets and describes. In that sense, it is itself a moyuba, the science and art of calling ‘the names.’  I’ve never seen anything like it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 110%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e-- \u003cb\u003ePaul Christopher Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor, Department of History and Department of Afroamerican, and African Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 110%;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 110%;\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eThe deeply contextualized ritual genealogies enable one to see the detailed social networks and broader social trends forged through ritual initiations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This outstanding work of scholarship includes extensive religious material culture and documentation such as ceremonial objects, slave records, and sacred objects and sites. This treasure trove enables a level of unprecedented precision for the cultural history of Afro-Cuban ritual life in the African Diaspora.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 110%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e-- \u003cb\u003eLauren Derby\u003c\/b\u003e, Bradford Burns Professor of Latin American History, University of California, Los Angeles. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 110%;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 110%;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%; font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif;\"\u003ePlease allow 2 weeks for delivery.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 110%;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 110%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%; font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eImportant Advisory\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cem\u003eDo not send money to anyone trying to sell you this book on any other platform or by direct message. \u003c\/em\u003ePurchase it here only from me personally, David Brown, and ask for my credentials--I will send you a proper invoice. Each book is signed by the author and embossed for authenticity. It may also be for sale on the official AsheExpress Facebook page.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 110%;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; line-height: 110%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 110%; font-family: 'Calibri', sans-serif;\"\u003eThe Lukumí will understand $189.05 as my \u003cem\u003ederecho\u003c\/em\u003e for seven years of writing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AsheExpress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45112488001722,"sku":null,"price":189.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0261\/7622\/5343\/files\/COVER-VOLUME-I-with-subtitle_1_COPYRIGHT_WATERMARK.jpg?v=1772562257","url":"https:\/\/asheexpress.myshopify.com\/products\/adeshinas-cuba-the-yoruba-lukumi-1820-1959","provider":"AsheExpress","version":"1.0","type":"link"}