Vodou in Haitian life and culture : invisible powers / [edited by] Claudine Michel and Patrick Bellegarde-Smith.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Michel, Claudine
Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Vodou.
Haiti > Religious life and customs.
Physical Description:xiv, 242 pages ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Vodoo in Haitian life and culture.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Afro-Caribben spirituality: a Haitian case study / Karen McCarthy Brown
  • Vodou in Haiti: way of life and mode of survival / Claudine Michel
  • African interpretations of the Christian cross in vodou / Leslie Gerald Desmangles
  • The song of freedom: vodou, conscientization and popular culture in Haiti / Gerdès Fleurant
  • Yon moso twal nan bwa (a piece of cloth on wood): the drapo vodou in myths of origin / Anna Wexler
  • "The Jew" in the Haitian imagination: pre-modern anti-Judaism in the post-modern Caribbean / Elizabeth A. McAlister - Resisting freedom: cultural factors in democracy-the case for Haiti / Patrick Bellegarde-Smith
  • The Haiti-New Orleans vodou connection: Zora Neale Hurston as initiate observer / Richard Brent Turner
  • Water in their eyes, dust on their land: heat and illness in a Haitian town / Pierre Minn
  • How Houngans use the light from distant stars / LeGrace Benson
  • Vodou in Haitian literature / Carrol F. Coates
  • It's all for you, Sen jak! / Donald J. Cosentino.