Lydia Cabrera
Lydia Cabrera (born May 20, 1899 in Havana , Cuba , † September 19, 1991 in Miami , Florida ) was a Cuban anthropologist and poet .
Life
Lydia Cabrera was born in Havana in 1899, the youngest of eight children. Her father was a well-known lawyer. From 1927 she studied painting at the Academie Moderne under the direction of Fernand Léger . She received her diploma from the École du Louvre. After the death of her partner Teresa de la Parra , she returned to Cuba in 1938.
She did research on Santería and other Afro-Cuban religions .
Her most important work is El Monte , an anthropological study of Afro-Cuban traditions.
Web links
- Biography (English). Archived from the original on June 3, 2010 ; accessed on January 24, 2014 .
- Lydia Cabrera Papers in the Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries (English)
- Digital images from the Lydia Cabrera Papers of the Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries (English)
- Lydia Cabrera (1899–1999): Recapitulando en la alborada de su centenario (Spanish)
literature
- Edna M. Rodríguez-Mangual: Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity . University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC 2003, ISBN 978-0807828878 .
- Christina de Stefano: Scandalous. The life of free women, Munich 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cabrera, Lydia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Cuban anthropologist and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Havana , Cuba |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 19, 1991 |
| Place of death | Miami , Florida |