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Martin Tsang

Craft Research Fund—Project Grant

2021

As the Bead Goes on: Mapping Spiritual Belonging and Pedagogy through Orisha Beadwork

Dr. Tsang’s project is an ethnographic mapping of Afro-Cuban religious bead crafting practiced in North America. He will research the ways that beading is carried out to better understand how beads are important agents of meaning and their making in communal settings furthers religious pedagogy

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Location

Miami, FL

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Grant amount

$10,156

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