The Free Exercise of Religion - Latin American Studies
The Free Exercise of Religion: Lukumí and Animal Sacrifice Early Life Ernesto Pichardo was born in Havana to a middle-class family. His mother had been introduced to Osha (a religion known also as Lukumí or Santería) as a child through a first generation olorisha (priest) who was the family cook. The father's side of Ernesto’s family, socially prominent with an economic history that ...