Lydia Cabrera

Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991) was a Cuban ethnographer, literary activist, and author of numerous books on Afro-Cuban culture, including El Monte.

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The Sacred Language of the Abakuá

The Sacred Language of the Abakuá

By Lydia Cabrera; Edited by Ivor L. Miller and P. González Gómes-Cásseres

University Press of Mississippi

The first English-language translation and extensive notation of a seminal work from the African diaspora

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