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Article: Ceremonies of the horsemen
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- The Independent Weekly
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- April 9, 2008
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Ceremonies of the horsemen CROSSING THE WATER: A PHOTOGRAPHIC PATH TO THE AFRO-CUBAN SPIRIT WORLD BY CLAIRE GAROUTTE AND ANNEKE WAMBAUGH Duke University Press, 258 pp.
The living gods of Cuba, in a new book of photos and essays
In the visually rich yet secretive world of Afro-Cuban religion, a photograph can conceal as much as it reveals. Everyday objects, estranged from their original use, seem charged with an eerie intentionality: children's dolls dressed in elaborate crowns and robes, cooking pots erupting with horseshoes and metal spikes, shells suspended in waterfilled glasses. Reading the surfaces of such photographs for meaning can be perplexing. For believers, say Claire Garoutte ...