Vodou Brooklyn : five ceremonies with mambo Marie Carmel / text and photographs by Stephanie Keith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keith, Stephanie, author.

Contributor:

Alexander Street Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moise, Marie Carmel.

Mambos (Vodou)--New York (State)--New York--Pictorial works.

Mambos (Vodou).

Haitians--New York (State)--New York--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.

Haitians.

Immigrants--New York (State)--New York--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.

Immigrants.

Rites and ceremonies--New York (State)--New York--Pictorial works.

Rites and ceremonies.

Vodou--New York (State)--New York--Pictorial works.

Vodou.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Religious life and customs--Pictorial works.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (137 pages) : color illustrations, photographs

Place of Publication:

Coconut Creek, FL : Educa Vision, [2010]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book is an intimate portrayal of a Haitian immigrant Vodou priestess. Color photographs and text document the young Mambo presiding over five distinct Vodou ceremonies held in one year in a single basement in Brooklyn, NY. By focusing on what happens in this transformed basement, the reader becomes personally involved with the people of this community through seeing them from ceremony to ceremony.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

The spirits

Petro ceremony

Gede ceremony

Danbala ceremony

Dantor ceremony

Spiritual wedding.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed September 11, 2019).

Other Format:

Print version:

OCLC:

1130724077

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.