Vodou in Haitian life and culture : invisible powers /

Vodou in Haitian life and culture : invisible powers /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Description:	xiv, 242 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Vodou -- Haiti. Vodou. Haiti -- Religious life and customs. Haiti.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10429149

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Vodoo in Haitian life and culture Invisible powers
Other authors / contributors:	Michel, Claudine. Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick.
ISBN:	1403971617 9781403971616 1403971625 9781403971623
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	This book introduces readers to the practice of Vodou and helps deconstruct and destroy stereotypes which have survived for hundreds of years. The authors in the collection--from Karen McCarthy Brown to Gerdes Fleurant to Leslie Desmangles--are leading scholars in the rapidly growing field of Vodou Studies. Tackling a wide range of Vodou practices and images, the essays within work to introduce readers to the history and practice of this religion, and to correct the fiction of Vodou which has been circulating as fact. The book focuses specifically on the role Vodou plays in Haiti, the country in which it has its strongest following, examining the influence it has on spiritual beliefs, cultural practices, national identity, popular culture, writing and art. By looking in detail at the beliefs and practices in one country, the reader will begin to understand this unique religion and the multiple domains in which it operates.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Afro-Caribbean Spirituality
A Haitian Case Study
Voudou in Haiti: Way of Life and Mode of Survival
African Interpretations of the Christian Vodou Cross
The Song of Freedom
Vodoun, Conscientization and Popular Culture in Haiti
"Yon Moso Twal nan Bwa" (A Piece of Cloth on Wood
The Drapo Vodou in Myths of Origin
"The Jew" in the Haitian Imagination
Pre-Modern Anti-Judaism in the Post-Modern Caribbean
Resisting Freedom: Cultural Factors in Democracy
The Case for Haiti
The Haiti-New Orleans Vodou Connection
Zora Neale Hurston as Initiate Observer
Water in Their Eyes, Dust on Their Land
Heat and Illness in a Haitian Town
How Houngans Use the Light from Distant Stars
Vodou in Haitian Literature
It's All for You, Sen Jak!
Introduction
Afro-Caribbean Spirituality
A Hatian Case Study
Voudou in Haiti: Way of Life and Mode of Survival
African Interpretations of the Christian Vodou Cross
Resisting Freedom
Cultural Factors in Democracy
The Case for Haiti
The Jew" in the Haitian Imagination
Pre-Modern Anti-Judaism in the Post-Modern Caribbean
The Song of Freedom
Vodoun, Conscientization and Popular Culture in Haiti
Water in their Eyes, Dust on their Land
Heat and Illness in a Haitian Town
"I am Going to See Where My Oungan Is"
The Artistry of a Haitian Vodou Flagmaker
How Hougans Use the Light from Distant Stars
The Haiti-New Orleans Vodou Connection
Zora Neale Hurston as Initiate Observer