Resumen de Incorporating the averse. Emulating freemasonry? approach to racial and hermeneutical entanglement in the abakuá religious exercitatio
During the nineteenth century, the secret societies Ekpe (Egbo) of the Cross River and Cuban Abakuá, were called "a kind of black masonry." Ekpe (Egbo) had a social, political and economic function that regulated the Calabar society. Its members, heads of the most powerful families in Calabar, managed the slave trade with the Europeans. Both his private esoteric exercise and public masquerades were integrated as a mechanism of his economic dynamics. Finally, its members will be victims of this slave trade that has helped feed and will end up as enslaved subjects in Cuba giving rise to the Abakuá. Through comparative history, we will try to approach the inverse dynamics of the incorporation of whites for Ekpe (Egbo) and Abakuá and black subjects for regular masonry.
