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**__Honorable Mention, 2019 Barbara T. Christian Literary Award, given by the Caribbean Studies Association__** **__Winner, 2017 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, presented by the Society for the Anthropology of Religion section of the American Anthropological Association Finalist, 2017 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions presented by the Journal of Africana Religions__** **An examination of the religious importance of food among Caribbean and Latin American communities** Before honey can be offered to the Afro-Cuban deity Ochún, it must be tasted, to prove to her that it is good. In African-inspired religions throughout the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States, such gestures instill the attitudes that turn participants into practitioners. Acquiring deep knowledge of the diets of the gods and ancestors constructs adherents’ identities; to learn to fix the gods’ favorite dishes is to be “seasoned” into their service. In this innovative work, Elizabeth Pérez reveals how seemingly trivial "micropractices" such as the preparation of sacred foods, are complex rituals in their own right. Drawing on years of ethnographic researc

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Author

Pérez, Elizabeth

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781479861613

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Religion, Cooking