Pt. I. Institutional and ritual innovation. Black royalty : new social frameworks and remodeled iconographies in nineteenth-century Havana ; From Cabildo de Nación to Casa-Templo : the new Lucumí, institutional reform, and the shifting location of cultural authenticity ; Myths of the Yoruba past and innovations of the Lucumí present : the narrative production of cosmology, authority, and ritual variation
Pt. II: Iconographic innovation. Royal iconography and the modern Lucumí initiation ; "The palace of the Obá Lucumí" and the "Creole taste" : innovations in iconography and meaning
Appendix: Fredrika Bremer's description of a Sunday afternoon drumming in a Havana Lucumí Cabildo, 1853 ; Irene Wright's description of her visit to an "African Cabildo" in El Cerro, 1910 ; The "regular" Ifá-Centric initiation versus the Ocha-Centric initiation ; The Oriate's counternarrative to Ifa-Centric Ocha practice ; Calendar of Oricha and Saint Feast Days ; Oral data from fieldwork : interviews, personal communications, and correspondence.
