Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 259 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780520926745
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0520926749
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0585468419
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9780585468419
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159734849X
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9781597348492
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9780520228221
,
0520228227
,
9780520228238
,
0520228235
Content:
Rara is a vibrant annual street festival in Haiti, when followers of the Afro-Creole religion called Vodou march loudly into public space to take an active role in politics. Working deftly with highly original ethnographic material, Elizabeth McAlister shows how Rara bands harness the power of Vodou spirits and the recently dead to broadcast coded points of view with historical, gendered, and transnational dimensions
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-246), discography (p. 246-248) , videography (p. 248) , and index
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Introducing rara -- Work and play, pleasure and performance -- Vulgarity and the politics of the small man -- Mystical work : spirits on parade -- Rara and "the Jew" : premodern anti-Judaism in postmodern Haiti -- Rara as popular army : hierarchy, militarism, and warfare -- Voices under domination : rara and the politics of insecurity -- Rara in New York City : transnational popular culture.
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English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe McAlister, Elizabeth A Rara! Berkeley : University of California Press, 2002 ISBN 0520228227
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520228235
Language:
English
