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Nan dòmi : an initiate's journey into Haitian vodou / Mimerose P. Beaubrun ; preface by Madison Smartt Bell ; translated by D. J. Walker.
Van Pelt Library BL2490 .B3813 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beaubrun, Mimerose P. (Mimerose Pierre), author.
- Bell, Madison Smartt, author of preface.
- Standardized Title:
- Nan dòmi, le récit d'une initiation vodou. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Beaubrun, Mimerose P. (Mimerose Pierre).
- Beaubrun, Mimerose P.
- Anthropologists--Haiti--Biography.
- Anthropologists.
- Vodou--Haiti.
- Vodou.
- Haiti.
- Vodou--Rituals.
- Initiation rites--Religious aspects--Vodou.
- Initiation rites.
- Ethnology--Haiti.
- Ethnology.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 279 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, [2013]
- Summary:
- Like all the great religions Vodou has an external, public practice of rituals and ceremonies, and also an internal, mystical dimension. Before Nan Dòmi, works about Vodou have concentrated on the spectacular outward manifestations of Vodou observance-hypnotic drumming and chanting, frenetic dancing, fits of spirit possession. Mimeros Beaubrun, educated as an anthropologist, set out to write another such work, but in the process she met the woman who would become her ultimate teacher and guide to the religion's internal mysteries: Aunt Tansia, whose knowledge, wisdom and spiritual power govern the text of Nan Dòmi. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Teaching of Perception with Aunt Tansia 47
- Chapter 2 Placement of the Head 61
- Chapter 3 Lira or a State of Lucid Dreaming? 71
- Chapter 4 The Double and the Dream Body 83
- Chapter 5 The Purification 105
- Chapter 6 Manipulating the Double 111
- Chapter 7 Walking in the Swarm of Stars 115
- Chapter 8 Fixed in Mystical Knowledge 119
- Chapter 9 The Eye of the Water 127
- Chapter 10 Establishing a Means of Communication 139
- Chapter 11 Manipulating One's Gift 151
- Chapter 12 The Importance of Je 157
- Chapter 13 I Remember 167
- Chapter 14 You Must Be Perspicacious in Order to See or There Are Conditions for Seeing 215
- Chapter 15 Having Cold Eyes or the Fear of the Unknown 229
- Chapter 16 Laziness or Indecision 235
- Chapter 17 Watch Your Step or Constant Attention 241
- Chapter 18 Witness of the Nannan-rèv 253
- Chapter 19 The Farewell Ceremony 261.
- Notes:
- Translated from the French.
- Originally published as Nan dòmi, le récit d'une initiation vodou by Vents d'ailleurs, La Roque d'Anthéron, France, 2010.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780872865747
- 0872865746
- OCLC:
- 812258399
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