Browsing by Author "Espirito Santo, Diana"
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- ItemAfro-Cuban Counterpoint: Religious and Political Encompassments(2019) Panagiotopoulos, Anastasio; Espirito Santo, Diana
- ItemAfro-Cuban micro-mobilities: examining processes of movement, in other words(2023) Espirito Santo, DianaPurpose - The purpose of this piece is to look at religious mobilities through their micro-cosmological particulars, using Afro-Cuban religious processes and espiritismo cruzado as case studies. Design/methodology/approach - The author asks, first, what technology is in this context, and how it circumscribes what emerges as cosmology (persons, deities and messages), and second, what knowledge is and how it is experienced, particularly in espiritista rituals.Findings - The author argues that we must reconceive of both, which in the Cuban case, defy common sense assumptions that divide message from transmitter, and knowledge from knower.Originality/value - Technology here can be cosmogonic (world building) rather than mediatic (serving as a medium), and knowledge, ever emergent, can be the spirit (muerto) as well as the messages it brings.
- ItemAlgumas observacoes em torno da renovacao na umbanda urbana contemporanea(2014) Espirito Santo, Diana
- ItemClothes for spirits : opening and closing the cosmos in Brazilian Umbanda(2016) Espirito Santo, Diana
- ItemEntrevista a Tim Ingold (Jueves 14 de abril de 2016).(2016) Simonetti, Cristián; Espirito Santo, Diana
- ItemLiquid sight, thing-like words, and the precipitation of knowledge substances in Cuban espiritismo(2015) Espirito Santo, Diana
- ItemMoebius Anthropology: Essays on the Forming of Form(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2021) Espirito Santo, Diana
- ItemNew media and the digitized paranormal: instrumentation, affective atmospheres, and the production of history in Chile(WILEY, 2021) Espirito Santo, Diana; Barcelo, GonzaloIn the last decade in Chile, an increasing amount of paranormal investigation companies have carried out ghost tours in patrimonial and historical places, using diverse technologies to penetrate into the history of sites. We ethnographically and analytically explore two related questions. First, we ask what paranormal instrumentation does to collective memory and to history. We argue that these 'registers' of the paranormal create 'affective atmospheres', namely from the forms of indeterminacy embedded in the functioning and performance of the apparatuses. Our argument is that these machines are mechanisms for the creation of a new history, one that is apprehended affectively. Second, in the context of an explosion of adherence in Chile to forms of new media, we employ the notion of `dark media' to illustrate that online material posted by paranormal researchers appears to escape any form of mediational understanding, feeding at once the public's perceptive and affective dispositions.
- ItemPlasticidade e pessoalidade no espiritismo crioulo cubano(2014) Espirito Santo, Diana
- ItemPossession consciousness, religious individualism, and subjectivity in Brazilian Umbanda.(2017) Espirito Santo, Diana
- ItemRecusivity and the self-reflexive cosmos : tricksters in Cuban and Brazilian spirit mediumship practices(2016) Espirito Santo, Diana
- ItemSpectral technologies, sonic motility, and the paranormal in Chile(2021) Espirito Santo, DianaIn this article I look at Chilean paranormal investigators in the capital-Santiago-and their apparatuses. I argue that these recording devices appear somehow as "vibrant" things, but they work in conjunction with others creating articulate living worlds. The first argument is that these articulations are made salient through sonic atmospheres-universes of sound that envelope a particular temporal moment, and that escape any single person's volition or control. These atmospheres create sonic reverberations, in effect, momentary cosmologies, that bend, curve, and extend into the lives of the investigators that engage with them. My second argument is that these sonic atmospheres create worlds that are not taken for granted but subject to controversy, varying interpretations and sometimes, stabilizing concordances, and that need to be "transduced".
- ItemSpirits, spies and lies in Havana : unwitting and paranoid entanglements between ethnographer and field(2016) Espirito Santo, Diana
- Itemthe ontogeny of dolls : materiality, affect, and self in afro-cuban espiritismo(2019) Espirito Santo, Diana
- ItemThe possible and the impossible: Reflections on evidence in chilean ufology(2020) Espirito Santo, Diana; Vergara, A.
- ItemThe route of Orion: Towards a deconstructive history of alien contact in Chile(2024) Espirito Santo, DianaIn this paper, I analyze a Chilean mining geoanalyst's narrative about large unrecognized geoglyphs he has charted in the Atacama Desert. The turns of this narrative take us through the Ancient Aliens hypothesis, but also an alterative pre-Inca migration route between the Atlantic and the Pacific thousands of years old, and in contravention to normative Andean archaeology. I argue that we need to look at alternative forms of history making that are not based on ontologically realist premises. Using Kleinbergs notion of 'past possibles', based on Derrida's theory of historical deconstruction, I defend that in the mining expert ' s narrative coexist a multiplicity of possible pasts, in oscillation between latent and manifest. I also look at the Desert itself, and its extractive industries, as well as a notion of 'extreme' in relation to temporal thinking, arguing that it is not enough to see the narrative on aliens as a result of neoliberal capitalist exploitation.
- ItemTurning Outside In : Infolded Selvesin Cuban CreoleEspiritismo(2015) Espirito Santo, Diana