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Author Miller, Ivor.

Title Voice of the leopard : African secret societies and Cuba / Ivor L. Miller.

Imprint Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  369.097291 M614v 2009    ---  Available
Description xx, 364 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Series Caribbean studies series
Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-337) and index.
Contents Arrival -- The fortified city -- Planting Abakua in Cuba, 1830s to 1860s -- From Creole to Carabali -- Dispersal : Abakua exiled to Florida and Spanish Africa -- Disintegration of the Spanish empire -- Havana is the key : Abakua in Cuban music -- Conclusions -- Epilogue: Cubans in Calabar : Ekpe has one voice.
Subject Sociedad Abakua (Cuba)
Secret societies -- Cuba.
Blacks -- Cuba -- Social life and customs.
ISBN 9781934110836 (alk. paper)
1934110833 (alk. paper)

 
    
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