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Author : Edna G. Bay
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252032551
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Asen, Ancestors, and Vodun written by Edna G. Bay and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social and iconographic history of a West African sculptural form
Author : Suzanne Preston Blier
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226058603
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (586 download)
Download or read book African Vodun written by Suzanne Preston Blier and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Luis Nicolau Parés
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469610922
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The Formation of Candomble written by Luis Nicolau Parés and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formation of Candomble: Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil"
Author : Douglas J. Falen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0299318907
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)
Download or read book African Science written by Douglas J. Falen and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1950378624
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Vodun written by Monique Joiner Siedlak and published by Oshun Publications, LLC. This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Timothy R. Landry
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812295633
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Vodún written by Timothy R. Landry and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourists to Ouidah, a city on the coast of the Republic of Bénin, in West Africa, typically visit a few well-known sites of significance to the Vodún religion—the Python Temple, where Dangbé, the python spirit, is worshipped, and King Kpasse's sacred forest, which is the seat of the Vodún deity known as Lokò. However, other, less familiar places, such as the palace of the so-called supreme chief of Vodún in Bénin, are also rising in popularity as tourists become increasingly adventurous and as more Vodún priests and temples make themselves available to foreigners in the hopes of earning extra money. Timothy R. Landry examines the connections between local Vodún priests and spiritual seekers who travel to Bénin—some for the snapshot, others for full-fledged initiation into the religion. He argues that the ways in which the Vodún priests and tourists negotiate the transfer of confidential, sacred knowledge create its value. The more secrecy that surrounds Vodún ritual practice and material culture, the more authentic, coveted, and, consequently, expensive that knowledge becomes. Landry writes as anthropologist and initiate, having participated in hundreds of Vodún ceremonies, rituals, and festivals. Examining the role of money, the incarnation of deities, the limits of adaptation for the transnational community, and the belief in spirits, sorcery, and witchcraft, Vodún ponders the ethical implications of producing and consuming culture by local and international agents. Highlighting the ways in which racialization, power, and the legacy of colonialism affect the procurement and transmission of secret knowledge in West Africa and beyond, Landry demonstrates how, paradoxically, secrecy is critically important to Vodún's global expansion.
Author : Timothy R. Landry
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812250745
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Vodun written by Timothy R. Landry and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourists to Ouidah, a city on the coast of the Republic of Bénin, in West Africa, typically visit a few well-known sites of significance to the Vodún religion—the Python Temple, where Dangbé, the python spirit, is worshipped, and King Kpasse's sacred forest, which is the seat of the Vodún deity known as Lokò. However, other, less familiar places, such as the palace of the so-called supreme chief of Vodún in Bénin, are also rising in popularity as tourists become increasingly adventurous and as more Vodún priests and temples make themselves available to foreigners in the hopes of earning extra money. Timothy R. Landry examines the connections between local Vodún priests and spiritual seekers who travel to Bénin—some for the snapshot, others for full-fledged initiation into the religion. He argues that the ways in which the Vodún priests and tourists negotiate the transfer of confidential, sacred knowledge create its value. The more secrecy that surrounds Vodún ritual practice and material culture, the more authentic, coveted, and, consequently, expensive that knowledge becomes. Landry writes as anthropologist and initiate, having participated in hundreds of Vodún ceremonies, rituals, and festivals. Examining the role of money, the incarnation of deities, the limits of adaptation for the transnational community, and the belief in spirits, sorcery, and witchcraft, Vodún ponders the ethical implications of producing and consuming culture by local and international agents. Highlighting the ways in which racialization, power, and the legacy of colonialism affect the procurement and transmission of secret knowledge in West Africa and beyond, Landry demonstrates how, paradoxically, secrecy is critically important to Vodún's global expansion.
Author : Judy Rosenthal
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813918044
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Possession, Ecstasy, and Law in Ewe Voodoo written by Judy Rosenthal and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : James H. Sweet
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807878049
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World written by James H. Sweet and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1730 and 1750, powerful healer and vodun priest Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe--addressing the profound alienation of warfare, capitalism, and the African slave trade through the language of health and healing. In Domingos Alvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World, James H. Sweet finds dramatic means for unfolding a history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world in which healing, religion, kinship, and political subversion were intimately connected.
Author : Kate Ramsey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226703819
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Spirits and the Law written by Kate Ramsey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vodou has often served as a scapegoat for Haiti’s problems, from political upheavals to natural disasters. This tradition of scapegoating stretches back to the nation’s founding and forms part of a contest over the legitimacy of the religion, both beyond and within Haiti’s borders. The Spirits and the Law examines that vexed history, asking why, from 1835 to 1987, Haiti banned many popular ritual practices. To find out, Kate Ramsey begins with the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath. Fearful of an independent black nation inspiring similar revolts, the United States, France, and the rest of Europe ostracized Haiti. Successive Haitian governments, seeking to counter the image of Haiti as primitive as well as contain popular organization and leadership, outlawed “spells” and, later, “superstitious practices.” While not often strictly enforced, these laws were at times the basis for attacks on Vodou by the Haitian state, the Catholic Church, and occupying U.S. forces. Beyond such offensives, Ramsey argues that in prohibiting practices considered essential for maintaining relations with the spirits, anti-Vodou laws reinforced the political marginalization, social stigmatization, and economic exploitation of the Haitian majority. At the same time, she examines the ways communities across Haiti evaded, subverted, redirected, and shaped enforcement of the laws. Analyzing the long genealogy of anti-Vodou rhetoric, Ramsey thoroughly dissects claims that the religion has impeded Haiti’s development.
Author : Milo Rigaud
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 9780872861718
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Secrets of Voodoo written by Milo Rigaud and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 1985-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets of Voodoo traces the development of this complex religion (in Haiti and the Americas) from its sources in the brilliant civilizations of ancient Africa. This book presents a straightforward account of the gods or loas and their function, the symbols and signs, rituals, the ceremonial calendar of Voodoo, and the procedures for performing magical rites are given. "Voodoo," derived from words meaning "introspection" and "mystery," is a system of belief about the formation of the world and human destiny with clear correspondences in other world religions. Rigaud makes these connections and discloses the esoteric meaning underlying Voodoo's outward manifestations, which are often misinterpreted. Translated from the French by Robert B. Cross. Drawings and photographs by Odette Mennesson-Rigaud. Milo Rigaud was born in Port au Prince, Haiti, in 1903, where he spent the greater part of his life studying the Voodoo tradition. In Haiti he studied law, and in France ethnology, psychology, and theology. The involvement of Voodoo in the political struggle of Haitian blacks for independence was one of his main concerns.
Author : Gerdes Fleurant
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0313297185
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Dancing Spirits written by Gerdes Fleurant and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1996-10-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reflexive approach and the concept of bimusicality have made possible this in-depth study of the Rada rite, the foundation of the complex and sensationalized religion of Haiti, Vodun. Fleurant returned to his native Haiti to immerse himself in the socio-cultural life of those who practice the religion that was brought to Haiti by the people captured in Africa from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Through total immersion in daily life culture and apprenticeship in the music culture (reflexive approach and concept of bimusicality), the author has accessed information and provided a descriptive analysis heretofore unavailable to scholars. From this privileged position, the author details the complexity, sophistication, and beauty of the ritual, music, and dance. The pioneering works on the music or the dance of Vodun have attempted to cover the whole ritual spectrum. Fleurant contends that the religion is too complex and too sensationalized to be treated in one volume and that each rite should be studied separately and in greater depth. Dancing Spirits examines drum rhythms, song tunes, and texts of the major Rada dances. A model of the Rada ceremony in Bòpo, a community located some ten miles north of Port-au-Prince, serves as a guide to the reader not familiar with Vodun liturgy. The work challenges studies that do not delve deeply enough into this complex religion, and serves as a model for further studies.
Author : Benjamin Hebblethwaite
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 149683562X
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou written by Benjamin Hebblethwaite and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Marjolijn Aalders Grool
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783896457349
Total Pages : 725 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (573 download)
Download or read book Vodun Stories of the Fon (Benin) written by Marjolijn Aalders Grool and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of 37 story texts, "gwènùxó," told by 15 performers in three villages of southern Benin, transcribed from recordings made April-June 1976.
Author : Mambo Chita Tann
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738731633
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Haitian Vodou written by Mambo Chita Tann and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haitian Vodou is a fascinating spiritual tradition rich with ceremonies and magic, songs and prayers, dances and fellowship. Yet outside of Haiti, next to no one understands this joyous and profound way of life. ln Haitian Vodou, Mambo Chita Tann explores the historical roots and contemporary practices of this unique tradition, including discussions of: Customs, beliefs, sacred spaces, and ritual objects Characteristics and behaviors of the Lwa, the spirits served by Vodou practitioners Common misconceptions such as "voodoo dolls" and the zombie phenomenon Questions and answers for attending ceremonies and getting involved in a sosyete (Vodou house) Correspondence tables, Kreyol glossary, supplemental prayer texts, and an extensive list of reference books and online resources Well-researched, comprehensive, and engaging, Haitian Vodou will be a welcome addition for people new to Haitian spirituality as well as for students, practitioners, and academics.
Author : Jean-Dominique Burton
Publisher : 5Continents
ISBN 13 : 9788874394432
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (944 download)
Download or read book Voodoo written by Jean-Dominique Burton and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the world of Voodoo through rare portraits of Voodoo priests and priestesses and their enigmatic alters.
Author : Mamiwata Priestess
Publisher : Behumbeza Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9780692901618
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Thy Name Is Vodun written by Mamiwata Priestess and published by Behumbeza Foundation. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays discussing various topics in African Vodun written by the diasporan born Mami Wata Priestess an African initiate in the pantheon of the African Mami. Wata.
