Black Arts: African Folk Wisdom and Popular Medicine in Cuba

Margarite Fernández Olmos

Chapter Chapter 3 in Healing Cultures, 2001, pp 29-42 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Born at the turn of the twentieth century in Havana, Cuba, Lydia Cabrera enjoyed the privileges of a Cuban upper-class life—travel, culture, and the company of artists and intellectuals, as well as a household of black servants. The latter became Cabrera’s entrée to the complex world of Afro-Cuban culture, an interest she would pursue as an ethnographer, oral historian, artist, and folklorist. El monte (The Sacred Wild, 1954), her first major study (discussed in Chapter 1, “La Botánica Cultural”), is considered a fundamental text on Santería and other African-based Cuban religious traditions.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-07647-2_3

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