Ritual Piracy: Or Creolization with an Attitude

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

Abstract

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.

Authors with CRIS profile

Rachel Romberg

Involved external institutions

Temple University US United States (USA) (US)

How to cite

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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