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Santería Copresence and the Making of African Diaspora Bodies
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In Santería priesthoods, practitioners are “made” into African diaspora bodies in what is called “making santo.” These embodied epistemologies reveal not only the complex historical practices that have emerged through processes of racialization and enslavement but also how a body logic resituates the formations of diasporic feeling and sensing. I argue that practitioners’ everyday acts redefine the capacities of and for action as part of a spiritual habitus. The various rituals, works, and spiritual acts in Santería thus culminate in a different form of bodily engagement with the world, operating in racial space. This article examines Santería body logics, showing how what I call copresences are activated in somatic racial ontologies. I suggest that these diasporic sensings resituate anthropological universalisms, arguing for a disruption in the debate between mediation and practice in the anthropology of religion. Rather than assuming notions of presence, copresence allows for an intervention that hails Santería’s embodied epistemology as a form of diasporic sensing.
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The article argues that Santería practitioners are “made” into African diaspora bodies through copresences—Orisha, ancestors, and spirits sensed on, around, and within the body. It reframes diaspora as embodied racial-spiritual sensing and proposes copresence as an intervention in anthropological debates about mediation versus practice.
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- Copresences are not mediated through a distant divine “Other” but are felt as intimate bodily presences; practitioners describe chills, shivers, tingles, premonitions, and possessions as “felt” (*los siento*), and initiation “seats” the Orisha on the crown of the head, making practitioners “Lucumí.”
- Copresences emerged from enslaved black people’s negotiations with Cuban colonialism and racial violence; the article traces this through figures such as Ma Monserrate, a priestess of Changó who began the Cabildo Egwardo in 1830s Matanzas, and Fermina Gómez, born October 12, 1844, during La Escalera, who began full-seating initiations in the 1940s and in 1944 began feeding Olókun at the ocean.
- Practitioners’ everyday acts with copresences constitute a spiritual habitus that redefines capacities for action; copresences can defend, heal, or cause *trastornos*, as when Inez had to become Lucumí to remove a dead African slave spirit, and Belkis described being mounted by different copresences as feeling like “falling asleep” or being “violently flung around.”
- Drawing on Fanon’s racial corporeal schema, the article argues blackness cannot be removed from Santería copresences’ body worlds; making Lucumí bodies creates somatic registers of diaspora and challenges anthropological universalisms in the mediation/practice debate.
Methods
- Ethnographic field research conducted between 2004 and 2011 with Santería practitioners in Matanzas and Havana, Cuba, and in New York City, Miami, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay area; pseudonyms are used for priests who requested confidentiality.
- Historical and secondary-source analysis of Afro-Cuban religion, slavery, La Escalera, cabildos, and Lucumí lineages, alongside interviews with priests and elders.
- Phenomenological and embodiment framework drawing on Fanon, Csordas, Mahmood, Ochoa, Matory, and others to develop the concepts of copresences and spiritual habitus.
Limitations
- Stated: the author says her interest is not to posit Santería solely as a liberatory experience, as an exemplary site of decolonization, or as pure resistance, but to examine attempts “whether successful or incomplete” to constitute embodied subjecthood within abject power.
- Evident from the text: the paper does not include a formal limitations section; its claims are based on ethnographic interviews and historical sources without a described systematic sampling strategy or generalizability claim.
- Evident from the text: confidentiality and pseudonyms limit verifiability of some individual accounts, and the analysis is situated within a specific transnational Cuban/U.S. Santería context.
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“In Santerı ´a, priests' bodies are described ritually as being “made Lucumı ´” (a term used for enslaved Yoruba in colonial Cuba) through a seating (asiento) process, which entails two spiritual “birthing” (pariendo) ceremonies.”
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“Practitioners in Santerı ´a describe chills, shivers, tingles, premonitions, and possessions of the multiple ancestors, spirits, elements of nature, and ritual items as “felt” (los siento), as bodily presences.”
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“Many practitioners I spoke with were drawn to Afro-Cuban religions as a result of spiritual twistings (trastornos) in which spirits of the dead caused them grief.”
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“People like Oba ´Bi situate the Orisha as part of their body.”
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“Thus deals, swindles, bets, and bargaining also take place with copresences alongside the veneration.”
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“For instance, the examples of Yordanka and Simone above demonstrate that racial corporealities are often out of place on nonblack bodies.”
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“Shivers, hair standing on one's arms, feelings, voices, mental pictures, and dreams, as well as divination and trance-based communications, constitute the numerous sensory paradigms that priests register daily.”
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“The agency of the spirits of the dead and of Orisha is thus directly linked to racial-spiritual works (trabajos).”
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“Copresences emerged historically in enslaved black people's pragmatic everyday negotiations with Cuban colonialism and racial violence.”
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“Yet these discussions of diaspora have elided how embodied sensings of copresences might transform the very conception of being from within particular racial schemas (see Matory 2009).”
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“The ways bodies intuit are themselves sociocultural registers (Desjarlais 1992;Guerts 2003;Thomas and Ahmed 2004) and can be described as their sixth sense (Guerts 2003, 3;Noland 2009, 9-10).”
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“The Orisha (divinities), various spirits, and familial ancestors are recognized as being on, around, and within practitioners' bodies.They are sensed and felt on the body.”
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“Inez had to become Lucumı ´to get rid of the spirit.”
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“Each initiation in Santerı ´a is a culmination of interarticulated bodily gestures; Orisha and iyawo ´are cleansed, shaved, fed, and other ritual acts establish mutual living-ness.”
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“In 2005, Ine ´z, a Venezuelan practitioner living in the United States, had to undergo a lengthy series of ritual cleansings in Cuba, because she had inadvertently picked up a dead African slave who was causing havoc in her life.”
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“Oba ´Bi and other priests walk with copresences, talking to them and placing them on each other's bodies even as they are understood to manifest through spiritual possessions and trance.”
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“While not all practitioners are”
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“For example, when describing being mounted by her Egun, Belkis said it felt”
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“In a dramatic rendition of bodily negotiations, Belkis, a priestess of Chango ´, discussed her experience of becoming mounted as alternating between moments of distress, nausea, and exhilaration.”
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“Santeros walk through the world negotiating with and being closely related to various spiritual assemblages, and they are constantly concerned about interactions and transactions with diverse copresences in, on, and around the body.”
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“Practitioners, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, or national affiliation, are thus remade into Yoruba-diaspora religious bodies; they are made Lucumı ´.”
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“In either instance, Fermina is the most famous case of a reversing of the Lucumı ´initiation process and a key element in the transformation of making Lucumı ´bodies in Cuban Santerı ´a.”
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“Copresences and the everyday rituals that engage them mean to bring balance to otherwise turbulent lives.”
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“Copresences simultaneously provide evidence of their existence (Holbraad 2008) and are fed, paid honors, treated as a person, and form constitutive parts of bodies.”
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“Postures and gestures of cutting, shaving, drinking, bending, and swearing-links with fundamentos (copresences) carried or made on their bodies-form part of contemporary Santerı ´a's spiritual habitus.”
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“A spiritual habitus, I suggest, highlights the self-forming capacities for action enabled through the somatic practices and spiritual relationships practitioners engage in with copresences.”
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“They embody the physical endurance of black enslaved Africans in the Americas under colonialism and imperialism, as well as contemporary forms of racial feeling and marginalization.”
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“Sensing in Orisha diasporas might allow us to rethink ontological questions of being-in-the-world (Merleau-Ponty 1964; Csordas 1999).”
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“Ma Monserrate, known as A ´poto, or the “first to reign,” was a priestess of Chango ´ who, in the 1830s, began the Cabildo Egwardo on Daoiz Street between Compostela and America Streets in Matanzas (Ferrer Castro and Acosta Alegre 2006, 35;Barrington Edmonds and Gonzalez 2010, 99).”
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“Second, I argue that practitioners' everyday acts with copresences redefine the capacities of and for action, constructing a spiritual habitus.”
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“The legacy of this period ripples through contemporary copresences-somatic transformations of power and nature.”
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“I suggest that an embodied epistemology of copresence enables unifications through sensing diaspora.”
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“It is important to note that while the histories of Afro-Cuban religions show a multiplicity of African ethnic backgrounds (for instance Egba, Fo ´n/Dahomey, Congo, etc.), Yoruba hegemony is crucial to the ways that bodies are conceived of as Lucumı ´.”
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“Fanon (1967, 116) refers to this as being”
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“Inspired by French Kardecian spiritism, Santerı ´a cosmologies fold soul energies as multiple and united simultaneously and can be hailed through bodily tingles and sensory reactions to spiritual-environmental fields (Clark 2007, 89;Cros Sandoval 2008, 365;Fontan ˜ez 2006, 269).”
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- Not matchedcites Fontañez 2006, 269
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“It is a mode of sensing diaspora-a way of being in and knowing the world emerging within specific racialized and gendered body memory (Daniel 2005).”
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“Egun are also fused with Orisha; they reside in the natural elements-oceans, rivers, mountains, crossroads, and so forth-even as they are embodied copresences that walk with and often inhabit the bodies of the living (Atwood-Mason 2002;Bolı ´var-Aro ´stegui 1990;Cabrera 1968;Falola and Genova 2005;Murphy 1994).”
§ SANTERI ´A COPRESENCE AND THE MAKING OF AFRICAN DIASPORA BODIES > -Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
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- Not matchedcites Atwood-Mason 2002
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- Not matchedcites Bolívar-Arostegui 1990
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- Not matchedcites Cabrera 1968
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“While blackness emerges as multiple, uncertain, and not necessarily celebrated in these schemas, blackened immanence is indeed a presence.”
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“They differ from the”
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“These somatic epistemologies unite and initiate bodies, activating relations of embodied consciousness.”
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“Feeling copresences in Santerı ´a is ritualized and practiced, a spiritual habitus that asserts the capacities of blackened agency.”
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“Thus in the grinding and cultivating wherein bodies were made and remade black, racialized bodies collapse time and initiate through kinesthetic expression.”
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“These ontologies fold body and spirit.”
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“Copresences are not always positive-they can be demanding, jealous, petty, or spiteful and require complex social-spiritual manipulations.”
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“However, sensing, knowing the world through the body, is often ignored as a profound element of epistemology.”
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“Phenomenologically, he revises Hegel's formula of sense certainty to show how racial ontologies form a”
§ SANTERI ´A COPRESENCE AND THE MAKING OF AFRICAN DIASPORA BODIES > -Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
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- Not matchedcites Fanon 1967
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“Just as the agency of”
§ SANTERI ´A COPRESENCE AND THE MAKING OF AFRICAN DIASPORA BODIES > CONCLUSION: Santerı ´a's Sixth Sense
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- Not matchedcites Sansi-Roca 2005
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“All of the Olo ´kuns on the island are thus considered born from Fermina Go ´mez's pot.”
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“They encompass a broad range of material-immaterial beings and can be thought of as active spiritual and religious subjectivities intimately tied to practitioners' bodily registers.”
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“Multiple heterogeneous cosmologies are incorporated within copresence body logics, and reordered as part of Santerı ´a's sixth sense (Guerts 2003).”
§ SANTERI ´A COPRESENCE AND THE MAKING OF AFRICAN DIASPORA BODIES > -Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
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- Not matchedcites Guerts 2003
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“Copresence punctures cognition, transposing pragmatic resolutions of everyday violences, pleasures, and spontaneous happenings of life.”
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“Moving in historical racial-spaces, Santerı ´a and other African-inspired practices find their racialized and sexualized power of embodied self-awareness precisely in the experience of extravagant black abjection (Scott 2010).”
§ SANTERI ´A COPRESENCE AND THE MAKING OF AFRICAN DIASPORA BODIES > -Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
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- Not matchedcites Scott 2010
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“An unhappy, distraught, or twisted copresence (from wherever it may come) can mean sickness, death, destruction, tragedy, or misfortune.”
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“we can perhaps imagine sites where embodied racial memory initiates embodied capacities of and for action.”
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“In the somatic registers of Santerı ´a, even Fanon's sobs might be rendered copresences and at least momentarily appeased.”
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“In death, portions of priests' spirits remain among the living, while they are also incorporated into Olorun, the rays of light from the sun.”
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“The spiritual hauntings of unappeased spirits and the ocean forced to swallow the bitter taste of blackened bodies thus form part of an intimate somatic register of social trauma, and of the interarticulated mechanisms of working in and through these frames.”
§ SANTERI ´A COPRESENCE AND THE MAKING OF AFRICAN DIASPORA BODIES > SPIRITUAL DEFENSES
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“Copresences are intimately sensed as beings-agents of racial-corporeal schemas that attune bodies through a habitus of slavery, imperialism, and colonialism as historical-cultural matrixes.”
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“Rather than assuming notions of presence, copresence allows for an intervention that hails Santerı ´a's embodied epistemology as a form of diasporic sensing.”
§ SANTERI ´A COPRESENCE AND THE MAKING OF AFRICAN DIASPORA BODIES > ABSTRACT
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“In exploring the penetrating ontology of Cuban Palo spirits of the dead, Ochoa (2007) similarly draws on the philosophical unfoldings of Hegelian being to show instead how sense un-certainty lingers in the immediacy and connection of sense experience.”
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“Priests' spirit souls are diffracted as they journey to obtain constant and always expanding forms of enlightenment (luz) and development (desenvolvimiento), while they are also in”
§ SANTERI ´A COPRESENCE AND THE MAKING OF AFRICAN DIASPORA BODIES > -Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
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- Not matchedcites Cros Sandoval 2008
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- Not matchedcites Feraudy Espino 2002
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“She is said to have established a complex modality of rituals that united ancestral spirits, the Orisha, and deceased slave-warriors in practitioners' bodies in order to heal the spiritual twistings that she and others had experienced.”
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“Santerı ´a epistemologies offer a site to examine the ways in which racial diasporas are felt.”
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“Copresences manifest as a form of sixth sense, and animate practitioners' bodies.”
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“This awareness creates detours that reroute trauma to reach a place where (even if only for a glimmer) blackness is recovered and bodies are made Lucumı ´through an embodied racial sensitivity.”
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“The material elements-ota ´and dillogu ´n of Orisha diasporas-have been described as”
§ SANTERI ´A COPRESENCE AND THE MAKING OF AFRICAN DIASPORA BODIES > -Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
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- Not matchedcites Sansi-Roca 2005
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- Not matchedcites Armstrong 1981
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“These embodied epistemologies reveal not only the complex historical practices that have emerged through processes of racialization and enslavement but also how a body logic resituates the formations of diasporic feeling and sensing.”
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“This form of corporeal schema indeed constitutes a habitus, a combined set of ritual practices and praxis that assert racial sensitivity.”
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“Indeed, these embodied ontologies enable Santeros to draw from diverse forms of practice, worship, and different systems of belief as they engage with various energies and beings as copresences.”
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“In the making of Lucumı ´bodies, tensed muscles of embodied racial space are loosened and flexed, even if only tenuously.”
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“I suggest that these diasporic sensings resituate anthropological universalisms, arguing for a disruption in the debate between mediation and practice in the anthropology of religion.”
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“Since sensory experience produces worlds, each form of bodily register constitutes a form of world-making.”
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“Egun are consulted, offer advice, eat, see, perceive, and, like the Orisha, provide”
§ SANTERI ´A COPRESENCE AND THE MAKING OF AFRICAN DIASPORA BODIES > -Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
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“Santerı ´a copresences are kinesthetic extended organs of bodies made Lucumı ´.”
§ SANTERI ´A COPRESENCE AND THE MAKING OF AFRICAN DIASPORA BODIES > CONCLUSION: Santerı ´a's Sixth Sense
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“African-inspired blackened racial corporeal schemas are part of the historical memory-making of people's affective registers.”
§ SANTERI ´A COPRESENCE AND THE MAKING OF AFRICAN DIASPORA BODIES > -Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
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“The making of Lucumı ´bodies is thus an acknowledgment of the historical memory-in-our-own-cells, that is, how muscle tension, pain, despair, suffering, domination, and pleasure are tightly bound with postures of perception and consciousness.”
§ SANTERI ´A COPRESENCE AND THE MAKING OF AFRICAN DIASPORA BODIES > CONCLUSION: Santerı ´a's Sixth Sense
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“Neither an ending nor a beginning, death is a kinesthetic continuum of shifting sensory elements.”
§ SANTERI ´A COPRESENCE AND THE MAKING OF AFRICAN DIASPORA BODIES > -Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
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“For instance, Fermina Go ´mez serves as an example of how a priest might be made erroneously to the wrong Orisha.”
§ SANTERI ´A COPRESENCE AND THE MAKING OF AFRICAN DIASPORA BODIES > SPIRITUAL DEFENSES
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“Once an initiate is”
§ SANTERI ´A COPRESENCE AND THE MAKING OF AFRICAN DIASPORA BODIES > -Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
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§ SANTERI ´A COPRESENCE AND THE MAKING OF AFRICAN DIASPORA BODIES > -Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
“the "embodied presence of others" (Csordas 1999, 138).”
§ SANTERI ´A COPRESENCE AND THE MAKING OF AFRICAN DIASPORA BODIES > References
“Csordas, Thomas. J. 1999 "Embodiment and Cultural Phenomenology." In Perspectives on Embodiment: The Intersections of Nature and Culture, edited by Gail Weiss and Honi Fern Haber, 143-62.”
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§ SANTERI ´A COPRESENCE AND THE MAKING OF AFRICAN DIASPORA BODIES > -Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
“Hesse (1997, 82; emphasis in the original) finds potential in Fanon's somatic action-creation-the possibility for racially experienced diasporic reversals.”
§ SANTERI ´A COPRESENCE AND THE MAKING OF AFRICAN DIASPORA BODIES > References
“Hesse, Barnor 1997 "It's Your World: Discrepant M/Multiculturalisms." Social Identities 3, no. 3: 375-94.”
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- Lydia Cabrera (1970, 81, 230; my translation) defines "Bi" as "born, engender, or alive" and describes "Ocha Bi" as the religious name for a priest of Yemaya ´.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Beliso-De Jesús, A.
- Venue
- Cultural Anthropology
- Publisher
- American Anthropological Association
- Published
- 2014-08-11
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 503-526
- ISSN
- 0886-7356 (ISSN-L)
- 1548-1360
- OpenAlex
- W2153863099
- Cited by
- 92
- References
- 45
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 47 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 14 · 2016: 3
- FWCI
- 24.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc
- Locations
- Cultural Anthropology (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Funders
- Yale University
- Army Research Office
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Caribbean and African Literature and Culture
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Visual Arts and Performing Arts › Arts and Performance Studies
- Keywords
- Santería, co-presence, embodied epistemology, racialization, enslavement, ritual, anthropology of religion, universalism
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