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Vodou en Vogue : Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Nwokocha, Eziaku Atuama.
Series:
Where Religion Lives Series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Vodou--Rituals.
Material culture--Religious aspects.
Mambos (Vodou).
Clothing and dress--Religious aspects--Voudou.
Black people--Religious life.
Aesthetics--Religious aspects.
Black people.
Aesthetics.
Material culture.
Clothing and dress.
Mambos (Vodou)--Haiti--Jacmel.
Mambos (Vodou)--Massachusetts--Boston.
Vodou.
Massachusetts--Boston.
Haiti--Jacmel.
Genre:
Ethnographies.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (239 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2023.
Summary:
"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 aesthetics, bodily adornment, and spirit possession"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
The gods give looks
Ad(dress)ing the spirits: color and cloth to show off as Lwa
Kouzen's makout: labor and money in the economy of Vodou
How tight is your wrap?: Tensions of race and sexuality in Vodou identity
Making love to the spirit: sex and dreams in spiritual marriages
Denye panse: fashioning lineages into Vodou legacies.
Notes:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
9798890861801
9798890861818
9781469674025
1469674025
9781469674032
1469674033
OCLC:
1376935120

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