Vodou en Vogue : Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States /

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"In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reveals in this richly textured book, that connection is manifest in the dynamic relationship between public religious ceremonies, material aesthe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Nwokocha, Eziaku Atuama (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Vodou > Rituals.
Material culture > Religious aspects.
Mambos (Vodou)
Clothing and dress > Religious aspects > Voudou.
Black people > Religious life.
Aesthetics > Religious aspects.
Mambos (Vodou) > Haiti > Jacmel.
Mambos (Vodou) > Massachusetts > Boston.
Massachusetts > Boston.
Haiti > Jacmel.
Ethnographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reveals in this richly textured book, that connection is manifest in the dynamic relationship between public religious ceremonies, material aesthetics, bodily adornment, and spirit possession"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (240 pages).
ISBN:9781469674032

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