Vodou in Haitian life and culture : 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: | First edition. |
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Physical Description: | xiv, 242 pages ; 24 cm |
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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.