...This chapter begins the personal diary of experiences at the terreiro (temple) in Jacarepagua, Rio de Janeiro, and contact with Babá Carlos Ojé Dúdú, the elder Egúngún priest of Xango Cá Te Espero. This chapter explores contact with the dead as exemplified by the appearance to Babá...

...Chapter 5 details the introduction of egúngún masquerade as an all-male, Yorùbá-inspired means of “working with” the dead in the eastern city of Baracoa and the western city of Havana. In it, Meadows analyzes the dynamic interplay of heterogeneity, regionalism, and masculinity in African...

...This book offers a rare glimpse into the Egúngún Society of Brazil, the Yorùbá-based society of ancestor worship, venerated through invocation of ritually clothed spirits. Existing contemporaneously with the tradition of Candomblé, the work posits that the cult’s survival since slave times...