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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nwokocha, Eziaku Atuama (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
Series:Where religion lives.
Subjects:
Vodou > Rituals.
Mambos (Vodou) > Massachusetts > Boston.
Mambos (Vodou) > Haiti > Jacmel.
Clothing and dress > Religious aspects > Voudou.
Material culture > Religious aspects.
Aesthetics > Religious aspects.
Black people > Religious life.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies
Mambos (Vodou)
Haiti > Jacmel.
Massachusetts > Boston.
Ethnographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Gods Give Looks
  • Chapter One. Ad(dress)ing the Spirits: Color and Cloth to Show off as Lwa
  • Chapter Two. Kouzen's Makout: Labor and Money in the Economy of Vodou
  • Chapter Three. How Tight Is Your Wrap?: Tensions of Race and Sexuality in Vodou Identity
  • Color Plates
  • Chapter Four. Making Love to the Spirit: Sex and Dreams in Spiritual Marriages
  • Dènye Panse: Fashioning Lineages into Vodou Legacies

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