[Linganth] My 2007 book Ritual, Discourse, and Community in Cuban Santería NOW IN PAPER

[Kristina S Wirtz]

My first book, Ritual, Discourse, and Community in Cuban Santería (University Press of Florida, 2007) will at last be available in paperback and epub. Use code AU1224 for a discounted price of USD$20 (expires 12/31/24). Book information and a large, friendly “Order Now” button can be found by scrolling down.

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With warm wishes to all,
Kristina

Kristina Wirtz, PhD Anthropology  she/her (please share your pronouns)
Professor of Spanish
Western Michigan University
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Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5338

My most recent publications are:
"Afterlives, remains, and traces: Theorizing presence," co-authored with Solimar Otero, Journal of Africana Religions 12(2): 199-222. https://doi.org/10.5325/jafrireli.12.2.0199

“The chronotopic, sonotopic work of ritual,” for Oxford Handbook of Ritual Language, D. Tavárez, ed., Oxford University Press, pp. 61-82.

“Scaling the value of multilingualism: ‘Common-sense’ narratives of growth and inequality in an expert report to the U.S. Congress," Discourse Studies (OnlineFirst; 2024). https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456241276910.

"Asymmetrical listening practices and hegemonic aurality in a dual-language kindergarten classroom," Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 34 (2) (2024). https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.12433.

“Juramentos and Firmas: Narrating Assemblages in Afro-Cuban Religions” co-authored with Solimar Otero, Narrative Culture 11(1) (2024): 51-75. https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/narrative/vol11/iss1/4/.

Western Michigan University is located on lands of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Bodewadmi nations of the Three Fires Confederacy. These lands were ceded under duress in coercive treaties. This history informs the present and our shared future. Please take a moment to acknowledge and honor this ancestral land of the Three Fires Confederacy, the sacred lands of all indigenous peoples and their continued presence.

“It's the past we step into, and how we repair it"  --Amanda Gorman
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Ritual, Discourse, and Community in Cuban Santería
Speaking a Sacred World



Kristina Wirtz



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An insightful ethnographic account of the lives of Santería practitioners in Cuba


“Wirtz’s lucid and intimate ethnography of Santería practice in Santiago de Cuba addresses classic debates in the study of religions and African-derived cultures in the Americas.. . . . A rewarding, tightly structured read.”—Caribbean Studies



“The reader comes away with a vivid sense of the complexities of the historical emergence of Santería, of the competing agendas of Santería’s ritual experts at this historical moment, of the distillation of relatively stable religious stances through moment-to-moment activities and discourse, and of the intimate interplay between the divine and the all too human.”—Journal of Linguistic Anthropology



“A sympathetic and detailed ethnography of a religious community. . . . A fine book for scholars interested in cultural theory and the construction of religious communities.”—Nova Religio



“Wirtz brings . . . a background in ecology and evolutionary theory that, combined with her expertise in linguistic anthropology, give her descriptions of discursive competition as a path to religious survival a rare prescience and urgency.”—Journal of Anthropological Research



“Wirtz’s attention to the socially constitutive force of reflective discourse and her detailed ethnography suggest new directions for the study of Santería and religion.”—Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology



"In a brilliant creative leap Wirtz analyzes the ways boundary-making discourse (gossip, chitchat, fault-finding) maintains Santería communities that lack unifying social, racial, or ethnic characteristics."—Mary Ann Clark, author of Where Men Are Wives and Mothers Rule: Santería Ritual Practices and Their Gender Implications




How do Santería practitioners in Cuba create and maintain religious communities amidst tensions, disagreements, and competition among them, and in the absence of centralized institutional authority? What serves as the "glue" that holds practitioners of different backgrounds together in the creation of a moral community? Examining the religious lives of santeros in Santiago de Cuba, Wirtz argues that these communities hold together not because members agree on their interpretations of rituals but because they often disagree.



Religious life is marked by a series of "telling moments"—not only the moments themselves but their narrated representations as they are retold and mined for religious meanings. Long after they occur, spiritually elevated experiences circulate in narratives that may express skepticism or awe and hold the promise of more such experiences. The author finds that these episodes resonate in gossip and other forms of public commentary about the experiences of their fellow Santería practitioners.



Drawing on ethnographic research about Santería beliefs and practices, Wirtz observes that practitioners are constantly engaged in reflection about what they and other practitioners are doing, how the orichas (deities) have responded, and what the consequences of their actions were or will be. By focusing their reflective attention on particular events, santeros re-create, moment to moment, what their religion is. Wirtz also argues that Santeria cannot be considered in isolation from the complex religious landscape of contemporary Cuba, in which African-based traditions are viewed with a mix of fascination, folkloric pride, and suspicion. Interactions among the conflicting discourses about these religions—as sacred practices, folklore, or dangerous superstitions, for example—have played a central role in constituting them as social entities. This book will interest scholars of religion, the African diaspora, the Caribbean, and Latin America, as well as linguistic and cultural anthropologists.



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