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Voice of the leopard [electronic resource] : African secret societies and Cuba / Ivor L. Miller.

By: Miller, Ivor.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.): Publisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2009Description: xx, 364 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.).Subject(s): Sociedad Abakua (Cuba) | Secret societies -- Cuba | Blacks -- Cuba -- Social life and customsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 369.097291 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Arrival -- The fortified city -- Planting Abakuá in Cuba, 1830s to 1860s -- From Creole to Carabalí -- Dispersal : Abakuá exiled to Florida and Spanish Africa -- Disintegration of the Spanish empire -- Havana is the key : Abakuá in Cuban music -- Conclusions -- Epilogue : Cubans in Calabar : Ékpè has one voice.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Arrival -- The fortified city -- Planting Abakuá in Cuba, 1830s to 1860s -- From Creole to Carabalí -- Dispersal : Abakuá exiled to Florida and Spanish Africa -- Disintegration of the Spanish empire -- Havana is the key : Abakuá in Cuban music -- Conclusions -- Epilogue : Cubans in Calabar : Ékpè has one voice.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.