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This may be because Isidra's sister threatened to bring charges against her for allegedly selling photographs of Cucusa's patrimony to Ochoa. Even without accompanying images, Ochoa's prose gives us a revealing time-lapse depiction of the social reproduction of Sierra Morena's praise communities. Relying on interviews rather than archival sources, Ochoa traces Cucusa's development as a bembé host to her involvement in a storied but now defunct society dedicated to La Caridad-Ochún. [Extracted from the article]