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Rara! : vodou, power, and performance in Haiti and its diaspora /
Rara is a vibrant annual street festival in Haiti, when followers of the Afro-Creole religion called Vodou march loudly into public space to take an active role in politics. Working deftly with highly original ethnographic material, Elizabeth McAlister shows how Rara bands harness the power of Vodou...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2002.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | Rara is a vibrant annual street festival in Haiti, when followers of the Afro-Creole religion called Vodou march loudly into public space to take an active role in politics. Working deftly with highly original ethnographic material, Elizabeth McAlister shows how Rara bands harness the power of Vodou spirits and the recently dead to broadcast coded points of view with historical, gendered, and transnational dimensions. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xviii, 259 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-246), discography (p. 246-248) , videography (p. 248) , and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520926745 0520926749 0585468419 9780585468419 159734849X 9781597348492 9780520228221 0520228227 9780520228238 0520228235 |