David H Brown

Biographic Data

ID572345
NAMEDavid H Brown
GIVEN NAMESDavid H
FAMILY NAMEBrown
SIGNATUREBROWN D H
AFFILIATIONSPrivate Practice, Milledgeville, GA
ORCID0000-0003-0265-5417
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Santería Enthroned: Art, Ritual, and Innovation in an Afro-Cuban Religion

    David H BrownBOOKSantería Enthroned2021

    Ever since its emergence in colonial-era Cuba, Afro-Cuban Santería (or Lucumí) has displayed a complex dynamic of continuity and change in its institutions, rituals, and iconography. Originally published in 2003 Santería Enthroned combines art, history, cultural anthropology, and ethnohistory to show how Africans and their descendants have developed novel forms of religious practice in the face of relentless oppression. Focusing on the royal thro…

  • The Light Inside: Abakuá Society Arts and Cuban Cultural History

    David H BrownBOOKLight Inside2019

    Originally published in 2003, The Light Inside is a ground-breaking study of an Afro-Cuban secret society, its sacred arts, and their role in modern Cuban cultural history. Enslaved Africans and creoles developed the Abakuá Society, a system of men’s fraternal lodges, in urban Cuba beginnings in 1836. Drawing on years of fieldwork in the country, the book’s novel approach builds on close readings of dazzling Abakuá altars, chalk-drawn signs, and …

  • Relationships between the Nevada Brief Cognitive Assessment Instrument and the St. Louis University Mental Status Examination in the Assessment of Disability Applicants

    Open AccessDavid H Brown, Lauren E Lawson et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports2012

    Mental status examinations of individuals applying for disability are most often authorized as "2-hour" evaluations and are to include a complete clinical and employment history, assessment of neurocognitive functions, an estimate of general level of intelligence, psychological and social adjustment, functional abilities, and a complete multipage report of the results. In the interest of meeting these demands we have been using the Nevada brief c…

  • Santería Enthroned: Art, Ritual, and Innovation in an Afro-Cuban Religion

    David H BrownARTICLENova Religio The Journal of…2005

    Review Article| August 01 2005 Santería Enthroned: Art, Ritual, and Innovation in an Afro-Cuban Religion David H. Brown David H. Brown Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2005) 9 (1): 112–114. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2005.9.1.112 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Cite …

  • Santeria Enthroned: Art, Ritual, and Innovation in Afro-Cuban Religion

    Solimar Otero, David H BrownARTICLEThe International Journal of…2004

    Santeria Enthroned: Art, Ritual, and Innovation in Afro-Cuban Religion. By David H. Brown. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xx, 413; 27 illustrations. $38.00 / £27.00 paper. David Brown's work on Santeria altars and material culture owes much to Thompson's cross-Atlantic, comparativist approach.1 Santeria Enthroned is something of a departure from a strictly Afro-Diasporic study in that it places the process of Afro-…

  • Santería enthroned: Art, ritual, and innovation in an Afro-Cuban religion

    David H BrownBOOKSantería enthroned2003

    Ever since its emergence in colonial-era Cuba, Afro-Cuban Santería (or Lucumi) has displayed a complex dynamic of continuity and change in its institutions, rituals, and iconography. In this book, David H. Brown combines art history, cultural anthropology, and ethnohistory to show how Africans and their descendants have developed novel forms of religious practice in the face of relentless oppression. Focusing on the royal throne as a potent metap…

  • Santería Garments and Altars: Speaking without a Voice

    David H Brown, Ysamur Flores-Pena et al.ARTICLEAfrican Arts1995

  • Thrones of the Orichas: Afro-Cuban Altars in New Jersey, New York, and Havana

    David H BrownARTICLEAfrican Arts1993Cited by: 3

    Apres une description des trones des « orichas » (autels pour deites afro-cubaines d'origine yoruba) trouves a New-York, New-Jersey, Miami, Havana et Matanzas (trones d'initiation et travail de perles, trones pour l'anniversaire d'un saint et trones pour les tambours sacres), les offrandes (essentiellement des fruits et des aliments) et leur echange rituel, l'A. montre la presence des trones de la royaute « oricha » dans l'histoire culturelle afr…

  • Africa's Ogun: Old World and New . SANDRA T. Barnes, ed

    Open AccessDavid H BrownARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1992

  • SPSS/Pc

    Open AccessDavid H Brown, Colin F Jex et al.ARTICLEFutures1986