Haitian Vodou
Spirit, Myth, and Reality
Haitian Vodou breaks away from European and American heuristic models forunderstanding a religio-philosophical system such as Vodou in order to form newapproaches with an African ethos. The contributors to this volume, all Haitians, examine the potentially radical and transformative possibilities of the religiousand philosophical ideologies of Vodou and locate its foundations more clearly withinan African heritage. Essays examine Vodou's roles in organizing rural resistance;forming political values for the transformation of Haiti; teaching social norms, values, and standards; influencing Haitian culture through art and music; mergingscience w…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Michel, Claudine (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-253-21853-7
- EAN: 9780253218537
- Produktnummer: 2277517
- Verlag: Indiana University Press (IPS)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 202 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.1 cm 316 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 316
Über den Autor
Patrick Bellegarde-Smith is Professor of Africology at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is author of Haiti: The Beached Citadel and In the Shadow of Powers: Dantès Bellegarde in Haitian Social Thought, and editor of Fragments of Bone: Neo-African Religions in the New World. He is a houngan asogwe, a priest of Vodou.Claudine Michel is Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is author of Aspects Educatifs et Moraux du Vodou Haitien and co-author of Théories du Développement de l'Enfant: Etudes Comparatives. She edits the Journal of Haitian Studies.
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