Romberg R (2011)
Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes
Publication year: 2011
Original Authors: Raquel Romberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Edited Volumes: Creolization as Cultural Creativity
Pages Range: 109-132
DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781617031069.003.0005
This chapter explores the religious creolization practices by the espiritista bruja(witch healers). It explains that religious creolization has stemmed from the institutionalization of a religion by a colonial hegemony. This creolization process was said to have been a form of “ritual piracy” resulting from irreverent appropriations or plunder of hegemonic religious symbols, rituals, and gestures.
APA:
Romberg, R. (2011). Ritual Piracy: Or Creolization with an Attitude. In Robert Baron, Ana C. Cara (Eds.), Creolization as Cultural Creativity. (pp. 109-132). Oxford University Press.
MLA:
Romberg, Raquel. "Ritual Piracy: Or Creolization with an Attitude." Creolization as Cultural Creativity. Ed. Robert Baron, Ana C. Cara, Oxford University Press, 2011. 109-132.
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