Vodou in Haitian life and culture [electronic resource] : invisible powers / [edited by] Claudine Michel and Patrick Bellegarde-Smith.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Vodoo in Haitian life and culture
Invisible powers
Vodou in Haitian Life and Culture: Invisible Powers |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- Invisible powers : an introduction
- 1. Afro-Caribben spirituality : a Haitian case study / Karen McCarthy Brown
- 2. Vodou in Haiti : way of life and mode of survival / Claudine Michel
- 3. African interpretations of the Christian cross in vodou / Leslie Gerald Desmangles
- 4. The song of freedom : vodou, conscientization and popular culture in Haiti / Gerdès Fleurant
- 5. Yon moso twal nan bwa = A piece of cloth on wood : the drapo vodou in myths of origin / Anna Wexler
- 6. "The Jew" in the Haitian imagination : pre-modern anti-Judaism in the post-modern Caribbean / Elizabeth A. McAlister
- 7. Resisting freedom : cultural factors in democracy-the case for Haiti / Patrick Bellegarde-Smith
- 8. The Haiti-New Orleans vodou connection : Zora Neale Hurston as initiate observer / Richard Brent Turner
- 9. Water in their eyes, dust on their land : heat and illness in a Haitian town / Pierre Minn
- 10. How Houngans use the light from distant stars / LeGrace Benson
- 11. Vodou in Haitian literature / Carrol F. Coates
- 12. It's all for you, Sen Jak! / Donald J. Cosentino
- Notes on contributors
- Index.