Haiti History And The Gods
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Haiti History And The Gods
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Author : Joan Dayan
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1998-03-10
Haiti History And The Gods written by Joan Dayan and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-03-10 with History categories.
Reprint. Originally published: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Haiti History And The Gods
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Author : Joan Dayan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Haiti History And The Gods written by Joan Dayan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with categories.
The Faces Of The Gods
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Author : Leslie G. Desmangles
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2000-11-09
The Faces Of The Gods written by Leslie G. Desmangles and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-09 with Social Science categories.
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.
After Colonialism
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Author : Gyan Prakash
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1995
After Colonialism written by Gyan Prakash and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
After Colonialism offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and the changes in knowledge, disciplines, and identities produced by the imperial experience. Ranging across disciplines--from history to anthropology to literary studies--and across regions--from India to Palestine to Latin America to Europe--the essays in this volume reexamine colonialism and its aftermath. Leading literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists engage with recent theories and perspectives in their specific studies, showing the centrality of colonialism in the making of the modern world and offering postcolonial reflections on the effects and experience of empire. The contributions cross historical analysis of texts with textual examination of historical records and situate metropolitan cultural practices in engagements with non-metropolitan locations. Interdisciplinarity here means exploring and realigning disciplinary boundaries. Contributors to After Colonialism include Edward Said, Steven Feierman, Joan Dayan, Ruth Phillips, Anthony Pagden, Leonard Blussé, Gauri Viswanathan, Zachary Lockman, Jorge Klor de Alva, Irene Silverblatt, Emily Apter, and Homi Bhabha.
Divine Horsemen
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Author : Maya Deren
language : en
Publisher: Documentext
Release Date : 1953
Divine Horsemen written by Maya Deren and has been published by Documentext this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with History categories.
This is the classic, intimate study, movingly written with the special insight of direct encounter, which was first published in 1953 by the fledgling Thames & Hudson firm in a series edited by Joseph Campbell. Maya Deren's Divine Horsemen is recognized throughout the world as a primary source book on the culture and spirituality of Haitian Voudoun. The work includes all the original photographs and illustrations, glossary, appendices and index. It includes the original Campbell foreword along with the foreword Campbell added to a later edition.
The New Imperial Histories Reader
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Author : Stephen Howe
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-07-24
The New Imperial Histories Reader written by Stephen Howe and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-24 with Education categories.
In recent years, imperial history has experienced a newfound vigour, dynamism and diversity. There has been an explosion of new work in the field, which has been driven into even greater prominence by contemporary world events. However, this resurgence has brought with it disputes between those who are labelled as exponents of a ‘new imperial history’ and those who can, by default, be termed old imperial historians. This collection not only gathers together some of the most important, influential and controversial work which has come to be labelled ‘new imperial history’, but also presents key examples of innovative recent writing across the broader fields of imperial and colonial studies. This book is the perfect companion for any student interested in empires and global history.
Miracle On Voodoo Mountain
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Author : Megan Boudreaux
language : en
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Release Date : 2015-01-20
Miracle On Voodoo Mountain written by Megan Boudreaux and has been published by HarperChristian + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-20 with Religion categories.
"It took months of God waking me up in the middle of the night before I realized I was the one He was calling to leave my comfortable American life and move to Haiti." Miracle on Voodoo Mountain is the inspirational memoir of an accomplished and driven 24-year old who quit her job, sold everything, and moved to Haiti, by herself—all without a clear plan of action. Megan Boudreaux had visited Haiti on a few humanitarian trips but each trip multiplied the sense that someone needed to address the devastation—especially with the children, many of whom were kept as household slaves on the poverty-stricken and earthquake-devastated Caribbean island. God guided her every step as she moved blindly to a foreign land without knowing the language, the people, or the future. From becoming the adoptive mother of former child slaves, to receiving the divine gift of the Haitian Creole language, to starting, building, and running a school for more than 500 children, "the amazingness of what God did after I made the choice to be obedient is incredible," said Megan. Three years later, six acres on Bellevue Mountain in Gressier is the home of the nonprofit Respire Haiti at the former site of voodoo worship, and in the area that many still come to make animal sacrifices, Megan and her staff of nearly 200 are transforming this community as they educate, feed, and address the needs.
The War Of Gods
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Author : Michael Lowy
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 1996-07-17
The War Of Gods written by Michael Lowy and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-07-17 with Religion categories.
In the 1960s liberation theology addressed itself to the problems of a continent racked by poverty and oppression. Comprising a network of localized communities and pastoral organizations, it soon became something much more than a doctrinal current. Liberationist Christianity defined itself in a multitude of social struggles, particularly in Brazil and Central America.
God In The Haitian Voodoo Religion
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Author : Jean Joseph Jean
language : en
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc.
Release Date : 2004
God In The Haitian Voodoo Religion written by Jean Joseph Jean and has been published by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Religion categories.
Migration And Vodou
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Author : Karen E. Richman
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2018-10-02
Migration And Vodou written by Karen E. Richman and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-02 with Social Science categories.
This book and accompanying compact disc provide a rare excursion in the innovative ways a community of Haitian migrants to South Florida has maintained religious traditions and familial connections. It demonstrates how religion, ritual, and aesthetic practices affect lives on both sides of the Caribbean, and it debunks myths of exotic and primitive vodou (often spelled "voodoo"), which have long been used against Haitians. As Karen Richman shows, Haitians at home and in migrant settlements make ingenious use of audio and video tapes to extend the boundaries of their ritual spaces and to reinforce their moral and spiritual anchors to one another. The book and CD were produced in collaboration to give the reader intimate access to this new expressive media. Sacred songs are recorded on tapes and circulated among the communities. Migrants are able to hear not only the performance sounds--drumming, singing, and chatter--but also a description, as narrators tell of offerings, sacrifices, prayers, and the exchange of possessions. Spirits who inhabit the bodies of ritual actors are aware of the recording devices and personally address the absent migrants, sometimes warning them of their financial obligations to family members in Haiti. The migrants’ dependence on their home village is dramatically reinforced while their economic independence is restricted. Using standard ethnographic methods, Richman’s work illuminates the connections among social organization, power, production, ritual, and aesthetics. With its transnational perspective, it shows how labor migration has become one of Haiti’s chief economic exports. A volume in the series New World Diasporas, edited by Kevin A. Yelvington