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Haitian vodou : spirit, myth, and reality / edited by Patrick Bellegarde-Smith and Claudine Michel.

By: Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick
Contributor(s): Michel, Claudine
Language: English Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2006.Description: xxvii, 161p. : ill. ports. ; 24cm.ISBN: 0253218535 (pbk); 9780253218537 (pbk)
Contents:
Vodun and social transformation in the African diasporic experience: the concept of personhood in Haitian vodun religion / Guérin C. Montilus; Shadow-matter universes in Haitian and Dagara ontologies: a comparative study / Réginald O. Crosley; Broken mirrors: mythos, memories, and national history / Patrick Bellegarde-Smith; Of worlds seen and unseen: the educational character of Haitian vodou / Claudine Michel; Vodun, music, and society in Haiti: affirmation and identity / Gerdès Fleurant; Vodoun, peasant songs, and political organizing / Rénald Clérismé; From the horses' mouths: women's words/women's worlds / Claudine Michel, Patrick Bellegarde-Smith and Marlène Racine-Toussaint; Rainbow over water: Haitian art, vodou aestheticism, and philosophy / Marc A. Christophe; A reading of the Marasa concept in Lilas Desquiron's Les Chemins de Loco-Miroir / Florence Bellande-Robertson; Herbs and energy: the holistic energy system of the Haitian people / Marx-G. Beauvoir
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Royal Anthropological Institute Open Shelves KUH [BEL-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Checked out 31/12/2021 L78412
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliography (p. [143-149] and index.

Vodun and social transformation in the African diasporic experience: the concept of personhood in Haitian vodun religion / Guérin C. Montilus; Shadow-matter universes in Haitian and Dagara ontologies: a comparative study / Réginald O. Crosley; Broken mirrors: mythos, memories, and national history / Patrick Bellegarde-Smith; Of worlds seen and unseen: the educational character of Haitian vodou / Claudine Michel; Vodun, music, and society in Haiti: affirmation and identity / Gerdès Fleurant; Vodoun, peasant songs, and political organizing / Rénald Clérismé; From the horses' mouths: women's words/women's worlds / Claudine Michel, Patrick Bellegarde-Smith and Marlène Racine-Toussaint; Rainbow over water: Haitian art, vodou aestheticism, and philosophy / Marc A. Christophe; A reading of the Marasa concept in Lilas Desquiron's Les Chemins de Loco-Miroir / Florence Bellande-Robertson; Herbs and energy: the holistic energy system of the Haitian people / Marx-G. Beauvoir

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