Mark of Voodoo
Author: Sharon Caulder
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780738701837
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Caulder writes of the links between her heritage, her spirituality and the practices of Voodoo and Shamanism. color photos.
Author: Sharon Caulder
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780738701837
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Caulder writes of the links between her heritage, her spirituality and the practices of Voodoo and Shamanism. color photos.
Author: Douglas J. Falen
Publisher:
Published: 2018-11-27
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0299318907
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A sensitive investigation into Benin's occult world, in which magic, science, and the Vodun religion converge into a single universal force. Falen demonstrates how a deep engagement with another lived reality opens our minds and contributes to understanding across cultural difference.
Author: Monique Joiner Siedlak
Publisher: Oshun Publications, LLC
Published: 2021-05-14
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13: 1950378624
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Understanding West African Vodun begins with knowledge. West African Vodun explores and explains this often-misunderstood religion. It invites readers to open their eyes and their minds to what Vodun is, where and why began, and how it’s practiced. You may think you know everything you need to know because you’ve seen Hollywood’s interpretation of these spiritual practices, but this book proves those theories, misconceptions, artistic licenses, and theories wrong. Inside, you’ll discover: Vodun’s early days and how it plays a pivotal role in how it’s practiced now How and why it’s been mis-characterized How to practice it properly Who the deities are and why they’re honored Who the Priestesses are and why they are held to such esteem And more! Finally learn how Vodun, Hindu, Shango, Jesus and the Buddha are far more alike than you may think and understand what role slavery and slaves play in this religion and why it should matter to you.
Author: Edna G. Bay
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 0252032551
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A social and iconographic history of a West African sculptural form
Author: Suzanne Preston Blier
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780226058603
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This book will be of critical importance not only to those concerned with African, African American, and Caribbean art, but also to anthropologists, scholars of the African diaspora, students of comparative religion and comparative psychology, and anyone fascinated by the traditions of vodou and vodun."--Jacket.
Author: Leslie G. Desmangles
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2000-11-09
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 0807861014
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Vodou, the folk religion of Haiti, is a by-product of the contact between Roman Catholicism and African and Amerindian traditional religions. In this book, Leslie Desmangles analyzes the mythology and rituals of Vodou, focusing particularly on the inclusion of West African and European elements in Vodouisants' beliefs and practices. Desmangles sees Vodou not simply as a grafting of European religious traditions onto African stock, but as a true creole phenomenon, born out of the oppressive conditions of slavery and the necessary adaptation of slaves to a New World environment. Desmangles uses Haitian history to explain this phenomenon, paying particular attention to the role of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century maroon communities in preserving African traditions and the attempts by the Catholic, educated elite to suppress African-based "superstitions." The result is a society in which one religion, Catholicism, is visible and official; the other, Vodou, is unofficial and largely secretive.
Author: Dana Rush
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press (TN)
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780826519078
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Introduces audiences to the arts and aesthetics of Vodun, a religious system whose existence is misunderstood, if known at all. Presents fieldwork in West Africa and comparative work in Brazil, Cuba, and Haiti. Sheds light on abstract to concrete dimensions of Vodun"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Luis Nicolau Parés
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 1469610922
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Formation of Candomble: Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil"
Author: Judy Rosenthal
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780813918044
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As a new resident of Togo in 1985, Judy Rosenthal witnessed her first Gorovodu trance ritual. Over the next eleven years, she studied this voodoo in West Africa's Ewe populations of coastal Ghana, Togo, and Benin, an area once called the Slave Coast. The result is Possession, Ecstasy, and Law in Ewe Voodoo, an ethnography of spirit possession that focuses on law and morality in "medecine Vodu" orders. Gorovodu is not a doctrinal set, but rather a lingusitic, moral, and spiritual community, with both real and imagined aspects. In medecine Vodu possession, the deities evoked are spirits of "bought people" from the savanna regions, slaves who worked for southern coastal lineages, often marrying into Ewe families. Drumming and dancing rituals, replete with voluptuous trances and gender reversals, bring these "foreign" spirits back into Ewe communities to protect worshippers, heal the sick and troubled, arbitrate disputes, and enjoy themselves as they did before they died. (Rosenthal employs Bakhtin's theory of carnival to interpret the openly festive element of Gorovodu.) The changeable nature of the religion echoes the lack of boundaries of the Gorovodu family and the residents' belief that communal and individual identity are fluid rather than fixed. Numerous name changes early in this century indicated a strategy for resisting colonial control. Writing from a background of anthropology, Rosenthal carefully monitors her own role as narrator in the book, aware of the cultural distance between her and the Africans she is writing about. She intends this ethnography to mirror the "texts" of voodoo itself, a body of signifiers and meanings with which the reader must interact in order to make sense of it.
Author: Benjamin Hebblethwaite
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2021-09-30
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 149683562X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Connecting four centuries of political, social, and religious history with fieldwork and language documentation, A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou analyzes Haitian Vodou’s African origins, transmission to Saint-Domingue, and promulgation through song in contemporary Haiti. Split into two sections, the African chapters focus on history, economics, and culture in Dahomey, Allada, and Hueda while scrutinizing the role of Europeans in fomenting tensions. The political, military, and slave trading histories of the kingdoms in the Bight of Benin reveal the circumstances of enslavement, including the geographies, ethnicities, languages, and cultures of enslavers and enslaved. The study of the spirits, rituals, structure, and music of the region’s religions sheds light on important sources for Haitian Vodou. Having royal, public, and private expressions, Vodun spirit-based traditions served as cultural systems that supported or contested power and enslavement. At once suppliers and victims of the European slave trade, the people of Dahomey, Allada, and Hueda deeply shaped the emergence of Haiti’s creolized culture. The Haitian chapters focus on Vodou’s Rada Rite (from Allada) and Gede Rite (from Abomey) through the songs of Rasin Figuier’s Vodou Lakay and Rasin Bwa Kayiman’s Guede, legendary rasin compact discs released on Jean Altidor’s Miami label, Mass Konpa Records. All the Vodou songs on the discs are analyzed with a method dubbed “Vodou hermeneutics” that harnesses history, religious studies, linguistics, literary criticism, and ethnomusicology in order to advance a scholarly approach to Vodou songs.