Haitian Vodou

Spirit, Myth, and Reality

AvPatrick Bellegarde-Smith,Claudine Michel

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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Beskrivning

Haitian Vodou breaks away from European and American heuristic models for understanding a religio-philosophical system such as Vodou in order to form new approaches with an African ethos. The contributors to this volume, all Haitians, examine the potentially radical and transformative possibilities of the religious and philosophical ideologies of Vodou and locate its foundations more clearly within an African heritage. Essays examine Vodou's roles in organizing rural resistance; forming political values for the transformation of Haiti; teaching social norms, values, and standards; influencing Haitian culture through art and music; merging science with philosophy, both theoretically and in the healing arts; and forming the Haitian "manbo," or priest.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-12-07
Mått:150 x 235 x 15 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Indiana University Press (IPS)
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Indiana University Press
ISBN:9780253218537

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Patrick Bellegarde-Smith is Professor of Africology at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is author of Haiti: The Beached Citadel and In the Shadow of Powers: Dantès Bellegarde in Haitian Social Thought, and editor of Fragments of Bone: Neo-African Religions in the New World. He is a houngan asogwe, a priest of Vodou.Claudine Michel is Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is author of Aspects Educatifs et Moraux du Vodou Haitien and co-author of Théories du Développement de l'Enfant: Etudes Comparatives. She edits the Journal of Haitian Studies.

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsIntroductionPatrick Bellegarde-Smith and Claudine Michel1. Vodun and Social Transformation in the African Diasporic Experience: The Concept of Personhood in Haitian Vodun ReligionGuérin C. Montilus2. Shadow-Matter Universes in Haitian and Dagara Ontologies: A Comparative StudyRéginald O. Crosley3. Broken Mirrors: Mythos, Memories, and National HistoryPatrick Bellegarde-Smith4. Of Worlds Seen and Unseen: The Educational Character of Haitian VodouClaudine Michel5. Vodun, Music, and Society in Haiti: Affirmation and IdentityGerdès Fleurant6. Vodoun, Peasant Songs, and Political OrganizingRénald Clérismé7. From the Horses' Mouths: Women's Words/Women's WorldsClaudine Michel, Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, and Marlène Racine-Toussaint8. Rainbow over Water: Art, Vodou Aestheticism, and PhilosophyMarc A. Christophe9. A Reading of the Marasa Concept in Lilas Desquiron's Les Chemins de Loco-MiroirFlorence Bellande-Robertson10. Herbs and Energy: The Holistic Medical System of the Haitian PeopleMax-G. BeauvoirConclusionPatrick Bellegarde-Smith and Claudine MichelAppendix: Table of Haitian LwaBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex