How Long to Read The Sacred Language of the Abakuá

How Long Does it Take to Read The Sacred Language of the Abakuá?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 45 minutes to read The Sacred Language of the Abakuá by Lydia Cabrera

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In 1988, Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991) published La lengua sagrada de los Ñáñigos, an Abakuá phrasebook that is to this day the largest work available on any African diaspora community in the Americas. In the early 1800s in Cuba, enslaved Africans from the Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon created Abakuá societies for protection and mutual aid. Abakuá rites reenact mythic legends of the institution’s history in Africa, using dance, chants, drumming, symbolic writing, herbs, domestic animals, and masked performers to represent African ancestors. Criminalized and scorned in the colonial era, Abakuá members were at the same time contributing to the creation of a unique Cuban culture, including rumba music, now considered a national treasure. Translated for the first time into English, Cabrera’s lexicon documents phrases vital to the creation of a specific African-derived identity in Cuba and presents the first “insider’s” view of this African heritage. This text presents thoroughly researched commentaries that link hundreds of entries to the context of mythic rites, skilled ritual performance, and the influence of Abakuá in Cuban society and popular music. Generously illustrated with photographs and drawings, the volume includes a new introduction to Cabrera’s writing as well as appendices that situate this important work in Cuba’s history. With the help of living Abakuá specialists in Cuba and the US, Ivor L. Miller and P. González Gómes-Cásseres have translated Cabrera’s Spanish into English for the first time while keeping her meanings and cultivated style intact, opening this seminal work to new audiences and propelling its legacy in African diaspora studies.

How long is The Sacred Language of the Abakuá?

The Sacred Language of the Abakuá by Lydia Cabrera is 462 pages long, and a total of 116,424 words.

This makes it 156% the length of the average book. It also has 142% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Sacred Language of the Abakuá Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 36 minutes to read The Sacred Language of the Abakuá aloud.

What Reading Level is The Sacred Language of the Abakuá?

The Sacred Language of the Abakuá is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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