A Year in White : Rutgers University Press : 9780813571201 : 0813571200 : 19 Jan 2016 : In the Afro-Cuban Lukumi religious tradition?more commonly known in the United States as Santería?entrants into the priesthood undergo an extraordinary fifty-three-week initiation period. During this time, these novices?called iyawo?endure a host of prohibitions, including most notably wearing exclusively white clothing. In A Year in White, sociologist C. Lynn Carr, who underwent this initiation herself, opens a window on this remarkable year-long religious transformation.   In her intimate investigation of the ?year in white,? Carr draws on fifty-two in-depth interviews with other participants, an online survey of nearly two hundred others, and almost a decade of her own ethnographic fieldwork, gathering stories that allow us to see how cultural newcomers and natives thought, felt, and acted with regard to their initiation. She documents how, during the iyawo year, the ritual slowly transforms the