Tuesday, April 22, 2008

People I'll probably Never Know

My Grandmother's Family in Cuba

My grandmother and her family in Cuba.

5 comments:

belledame222 said...

beautiful.

Daisy said...

Very nice! And that child is adorable!!!! (((cutie))))

(As I age, I find I am pathologically UNABLE to REFRAIN from commenting on cat/dog/children/happy lovers/old people photos... and you have two of those!)

Daisy said...

Vanessa, is your Cuban family Catholic? Do they practice?

Caribbean Christianity, mixed with Santeria, etc = one of my favorite morphs of Catholicism! Very similar to tarot, Voodoo, lots of archetypes, etc.

(I ask because I see two, maybe three, religious medals.)

Vanessa said...

OMG, they are the Catholic-est!

My grandmother's house in Miami has a huge floor-to-ceiling image of the Madonna and Child with giant plastic pink rosary beads the size of your head draped across it.

I too like the Caribbean Catholicism, but my favorite Christian synchretism has to be the John Frum people. It's absolutely fascinating, as a student of cultural anthropology, to study a religion whose origin you can examine so closely.

Goody said...

Cargo cults and Santeria-excellent. You can't stop blogging, no one else has comment threads mentioning John Frum.

In an anthro aside:

My husband is in the other room playing with the kid and I hear him saying (about cave paintings at Altimira):

That kid probably got in trouble for drawing on the walls...(calling to me) hey, we should make a spear-thrower!"

If you hear about an atl atl accident in rural Nebraska, you'll know who it was.

Your little cousin is too cute. BTW, belated birthday wishes.