Alberto del Pozo

1945 - 1992

Further Reading:

Anyone who is new to the field of Santería and the Orishas and would like to learn more may refer to the following bibliography of the most authoritative works.

Bascom, William R. (1980) Sixteen cowries: Yoruba divination from Africa to the New World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Brandon, George. (1993) Santeria from Africa to the New World: the dead sell memories. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Brown, David H. (1993) "Thrones of the Orishas: Afro-Cuban altars in New Jersey, New York, and Havana." African Arts 26(4): 44-59.

Cabrera, Lydia. (1993) El Monte: Igbo Finda, Ewe Orisha, Vititi Nfinda: notas sobre las religiones, la magia, las supersticiones y el folklore de los negros criollos y el pueblo de Cuba. La Habana: Letras Cubanas.

_____ (1996) Yemayá y Ochún : kariocha, iyalorichas y olorichas. Miami: Ediciones Universal.

Castellanos, Isabel (1996) "From Ulkumí to Lucumí: a historical overview of religious acculturation in Cuba." In: Santeria: Aesthetics in contemporary Latin American art; pp. 39-50. Arthur Lindsay, ed. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Lachatañeré, Rómulo. (1995) Manual de Santería: el sistema de cultos "Lucumí." La Habana: Editorial Caribe.

Lindsay, Arturo. (1996) "Orishas." In: Santeria: Aesthetics in contemporary Latin American art; pp. 201-23. Arthur Lindsay, ed. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Mosquera, Gerardo. (1996) "Elegguá at the modern crossroads: the presence of Africa in the visual art of Cuba. In: Santeria: Aesthetics in contemporary Latin American art; pp. 225-58. Arthur Lindsay, ed. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Murphy, Joseph M. (1993) Santeria: African spirits in America: with a new preface. Boston: Beacon Press.

Ortíz, Fernando. (1992) Los cabildos y la fiesta afrocubanos del Día de Reyes. La Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales.

Ramos, Miguel "Willie." (1996) "Afro-Cuban orisha worship." In: Santeria: Aesthetics in contemporary Latin American art; pp. 51-76. Arthur Lindsay, ed. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Sandoval, Mercedes Cros. (1995) "Afro-Cuban religion in perspective." In: Enigmatic powers: syncretism with African and indigenous peoples; pp. 81-89. Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo and Andrés Pérez y Mena, eds. New York: Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies.

_____ (1975) La religión afrocubana. Madrid: Editorial Playor.

_____ (1979) "Santeria as a mental health care system: an historical overview." Social Science & Medicine 137-51.

_____ (1982) "Thunder over Miami: change in a technological society." Thunder over Miami: ritual objects of Nigerian and Afro-Cuban religions. Miami: Miami-Dade Community College.

Thompson, Robert Farris. (1993) Face of the gods: art and altars of Africa and the African Americas. New York: Museum for African Art.