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"'Orunile, ' heaven is home : Afrolatino diasporas in Africa and the Americas : a dissertation in folklore and folklife

Title
"'Orunile, ' heaven is home : Afrolatino diasporas in Africa and the Americas : a dissertation in folklore and folklife / Solimar Otero.
Author
Otero, Solimar.
Publication
2002.

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Description
ix, 459 p. : ill.
Subject
  • Yoruba (African people) > Cuba
  • Yoruba (African people) > Nigeria
  • Yoruba (African people) > Latin America
  • African diaspora
  • Africans > Cuba
  • Africans > Latin America
  • Cuba > Social conditions > 19th century
Note
  • A study of the Lagosian Yoruba from Nigeria that came to Cuba in the 18th and 19th century either as slaves or manumitted workers and the later community of Yoruba who were repatriated back to Lagos and intermarried with another group of repatriated Yoruba from Brazil (Nagos). The focus is the ensuing Aguda community that actively nurtured its social "Yoruba-Cuban-Brazilian" Afrolatino heritage and other Afrolatino communities.
Thesis (note)
  • Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2002.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 382-457) and index; also appendices of interviews with Aguda in Lagos.
Reproduction (note)
  • Photocopy.
Call Number
Sc D 05-1870
OCLC
53933191
Author
Otero, Solimar.
Title
"'Orunile, ' heaven is home : Afrolatino diasporas in Africa and the Americas : a dissertation in folklore and folklife / Solimar Otero.
Imprint
2002.
Thesis
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2002.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 382-457) and index; also appendices of interviews with Aguda in Lagos.
Reproduction
Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 2005. 22 cm.
Research Call Number
Sc D 05-1870
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