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Vodou in the Haitian Experience : A Black Atlantic Perspective.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (290 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498508322
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Vodou in the Haitian ExperienceDDC classification:
  • 299.6/75097294
LOC classification:
  • BL2490 -- .V636 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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