Vodún : secrecy and the search for divine power /
Author / Creator: | Landry, Timothy R., author. |
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Imprint: | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019] |
Description: | x, 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Contemporary ethnography Contemporary ethnography. |
Subject: | |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11946067 |
Summary: | Tourists to Ouidah, a city on the coast of the Republic of Bénin, in West Africa, typically visit a few well-known sites of significance to the Vodún religion--the Python Temple, where Dangbé, the python spirit, is worshipped, and King Kpasse's sacred forest, which is the seat of the Vodún deity known as Lokò. However, other, less familiar places, such as the palace of the so-called supreme chief of Vodún in Bénin, are also rising in popularity as tourists become increasingly adventurous and as more Vodún priests and temples make themselves available to foreigners in the hopes of earning extra money. |
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Physical Description: | x, 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780812250749 0812250745 |