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

Other author Michel, Claudine.
Other author Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Descriptionxiv, 242 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Vodou.
Haiti--Religious life and customs.

Variant title Vodoo in Haitian life and culture
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006043152
ISBN1403971617 (alk. paper)
ISBN1403971625 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks BL2490 .V62 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold