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Publication details [#45795]
Wirtz, Kristina. 2007. Enregistered memory and Afro-Cuban historicity in Santería’s ritual speech. Language & Communication 27 (3) : 245–257. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper discusses how contrasts in the ideological values of the contrasting ‘Lucumí’ and ‘Bozal’ marked speech registers, used in the ritual speech of Cuban Santería practitioners, bring into play three distinct chronotopes, thereby indexing the historical ‘voices’ and continuing power of ancestors and African deities, and functioning as a kind of ‘enregistered memory’.