Vodou en vogue : fashioning Black divinities in Haiti and the United States / Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha.

"In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reveals in this richly textured book, that connection is manifest in the dynamic relationship between public religious ceremonies, material aesthetics, bodi...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Where religion lives.
Main Author: Nwokocha, Eziaku Atuama (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
Series:Where religion lives.
Subjects:
Vodou > Rituals.
Mambos (Vodou) > Massachusetts > Boston.
Mambos (Vodou) > Haiti > Jacmel.
Clothing and dress > Religious aspects > Voudou.
Material culture > Religious aspects.
Aesthetics > Religious aspects.
Black people > Religious life.
Mambos (Vodou)
Haiti > Jacmel.
Massachusetts > Boston.
Ethnographies.
Genre:
Ethnographies.
Physical Description:xx, 208 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
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Summary:
"In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reveals in this richly textured book, that connection is manifest in the dynamic relationship between public religious ceremonies, material aesthetics, bodily adornment, and spirit possession"-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number:BL2490 .N96 2023
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-197) and index.
ISBN:9781469674001
1469674009
9781469674018
1469674017