A Party for Lazarus

Todd Ramón Ochoa is a cultural anthropologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Society of the Dead: Quita Manaquita and Palo Praise in Cuba.

Acknowledgments
Preface

PART ONE
1 • The Ring and the Altar
2 • La Sociedad Africana, 1880–1940: Chacha Cairo
among the Dead and the Santos-Orisás
3 • Cucusa Sáez and Her Children

PART TWO
4 • 1999: Return
5 • A Meal for the Dead
6 • Opening
7 • Slaughter
8 • A Bembé for San Lázaro–Babalú Ayé

PART THREE
9 • 2005: Loss
10 • A Hole to Fill
11 • Dear Elégua
12 • 2006: Decay
13 • Oyá

PART FOUR
14 • 2009: Deceit
15 • Voices of the Dead
16 • 2012: Prohibition
17 • Lázaro M.
18 • Two Bembés

PART FIVE
19 • 2014: Despair
20 • Sovereigns of Affliction
Epilogue • 2018: Recovery

Notes
Bibliography
Index