TY - BOOK AU - Espirito Santo,Diana TI - Developing the dead: mediumship and selfhood in Cuban espiritismo SN - 9780813055275 AV - BL2532 .D484 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - Gainesville PB - University Press of Florida KW - Santeria KW - Cuba KW - Black people KW - Religion KW - Spiritualism KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Spirits at the crossroads of belief and pragmatism --; Spiritism and the place of the dead in Afro-Cuban religion --; On good mediumship: science, revolution, and legitimacy --; Encounter, selfhood, and multiplicity --; Development as cosmogony: ritual and materialization --; Epilogue: biographical intersections; 2; b N2 - This book is the first sustained, deep ethnographic study of Espiritismo (Spiritism) in Cuba. In it, Espirito Santo examines in-depth the daily rhythms of how individual practitioners' experiences and conceptions of selfhood are shaped UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=879242&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -