Format:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 242 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
1403971617
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1403971625
Content:
This book introduces readers to the practice of Vodou and helps deconstruct and destroy stereotypes which have survived for hundreds of years. The authors in the collection--from Karen McCarthy Brown to Gerdes Fleurant to Leslie Desmangles--are leading scholars in the rapidly growing field of Vodou Studies. Tackling a wide range of Vodou practices and images, the essays within work to introduce readers to the history and practice of this religion, and to correct the fiction of Vodou which has been circulating as fact. The book focuses specifically on the role Vodou plays in Haiti, the co
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Contents; Invisible Powers: An Introduction; 1 Afro-Caribbean Spirituality: A Haitian Case Study; 2 Vodou in Haiti: Way of Life and Mode of Survival; 3 African Interpretations of the Christian Cross in Vodou; 4 The Song of Freedom: Vodou, Conscientization, and Popular Culture in Haiti; 5 Yon Moso Twal nan Bwa (A Piece of Cloth on Wood): The Drapo Vodou in Myths of Origin; 6 "The Jew" in the Haitian Imagination: Pre-Modern Anti-Judaism in the Post-Modern Caribbean; 7 Resisting Freedom: Cultural Factors in Democracy-The Case for Haiti
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8 The Haiti-New Orleans Vodou Connection: Zora Neale Hurston as Initiate Observer9 Water in Their Eyes, Dust on Their Land: Heat and Illness in a Haitian Town; 10 How Houngans Use the Light from Distant Stars; 11 Vodou in Haitian Literature; 12 It's All for You, Sen Jak!; Notes on Contributors; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781403971623
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Vodou in Haitian Life and Culture : Invisible Powers
Language:
English
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