Vodou in the Haitian Experience : A Black Atlantic Perspective.
Joseph, Celucien L.
Vodou in the Haitian Experience : A Black Atlantic Perspective. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (290 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Vodou, Anthropology, Art, Performance, and the Black Diaspora -- 1 Roots / Routes / Rasin -- 2 Circling the Cosmogram -- 3 Speaking the Past -- 4 Decoding Dress -- Part II. Vodou and African Traditional Religions -- 5 The African Origin of Haitian Vodou -- 6 The Vodun Has Killed Them -- 7 The Vibratory Art of Haiti -- 8 Ethnographic Interpretations of Traditional African Religious Practices and Haitian Vodou Ceremonial Rites in Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse and Maya Deren's Divine Horsemen -- 9 Oversouls and Egregores in Vodou -- 10 Arabian Religion, Islam, and Haitian Vodou -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.
This collection studies comparatively the connections and relationships between Vodou and African traditional religions such as Yoruba religion and Egyptian religion. Vodou is also studied from multiple theoretical approaches including queer, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, postcolonial criticism, postmodernism, and psychoanalysis.
9781498508322
Vodou.
Electronic books.
BL2490 -- .V636 2016eb
299.6/75097294
Vodou in the Haitian Experience : A Black Atlantic Perspective. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (290 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Vodou, Anthropology, Art, Performance, and the Black Diaspora -- 1 Roots / Routes / Rasin -- 2 Circling the Cosmogram -- 3 Speaking the Past -- 4 Decoding Dress -- Part II. Vodou and African Traditional Religions -- 5 The African Origin of Haitian Vodou -- 6 The Vodun Has Killed Them -- 7 The Vibratory Art of Haiti -- 8 Ethnographic Interpretations of Traditional African Religious Practices and Haitian Vodou Ceremonial Rites in Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse and Maya Deren's Divine Horsemen -- 9 Oversouls and Egregores in Vodou -- 10 Arabian Religion, Islam, and Haitian Vodou -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.
This collection studies comparatively the connections and relationships between Vodou and African traditional religions such as Yoruba religion and Egyptian religion. Vodou is also studied from multiple theoretical approaches including queer, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, postcolonial criticism, postmodernism, and psychoanalysis.
9781498508322
Vodou.
Electronic books.
BL2490 -- .V636 2016eb
299.6/75097294