Research Catalog

Title

Botánica Los Angeles : Latino popular religious art in the city of angels / Patrick Arthur Polk ; with contributions by Donald J. Cosentino [and others].

Author

Polk, Patrick Arthur.

Publication

Los Angeles, CA : UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Cosentino, Donald, 1941-

Description

139 pages : color illustrations; 26 cm

Subject

• Religious articles > California > Los Angeles
• Afro-Caribbean cults > California > Los Angeles
• Afro-Caribbean cults
• Religious articles
• Afrokaribischer Kult
• Religiöse Kunst
• Los Angeles (Calif.) > Religious life and customs
• California > Los Angeles
• Los Angeles, Calif
• Los Angeles (Calif.)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Botánica Los Angeles : an introduction ; Objects of devotion : sacramental imagination and the sacred universe of the botánica / Patrick Arthur Polk -- Botánicas : sites of healing and community support / Claudia J. Hernández and Michael Owen Jones -- "Stir it up" : an Elegba throne by Felipe and Valeria García Villamil / Patrick Arthur Polk -- Remembering América : a powerful and cariñosa daughter of Yemayá and a maestra de las ciencias ocultas / Yves Marton -- Travels with Charley and Manuel / Donald J. Cosentino -- "Candles, flowers, and perfume" : Puerto Rican spiritism on the move / Ysamur Flores-Peña -- "God, my saints, and Michaela too!" / Patrick Arthur Polk -- Hermano Carlos and San Simón / Patrick Arthur Polk and Michael Owen Jones -- Infinite gestures : Franco Mondini-Ruiz's Infinito Botánica : L.A. / Miki Garcia.

ISBN

• 0974872903
• 9780974872902

LCCN

2004048007

OCLC

• ocm55015982
• 55015982
• SCSB-1378109

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library