Migration And Vodou
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
Download Migration And Vodou PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Migration And Vodou book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Migration And Vodou
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
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
Migration And Vodou
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Migration And Vodou written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Haiti And The Haitian Diaspora In The Wider Caribbean
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
Author : Philippe Zacaïr
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2010-04-18
Haiti And The Haitian Diaspora In The Wider Caribbean written by Philippe Zacaïr 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 2010-04-18 with Social Science categories.
During the past ten years, political debates, legal disputes, and rising violence associated with the presence of Haitian migrants have flared up throughout the Caribbean basin in such places as Guadeloupe, the Dominican Republic, French Guiana, the Bahamas, and Jamaica. The contributors to this volume explore the common thread of prejudice against the Haitian diaspora as well as its potential role in the construction of national narratives from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. These essays, written by historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and Francophone studies scholars, examine how Haitians interact as an immigrant group with other parts of the Caribbean as well as how they are perceived and treated, particularly in terms of ethnicity and race, in their migration experience in the broader Caribbean. By discussing the prevalence of anti-Haitianism throughout the region alongside the challenges Haitians face as immigrants, this volume completes the global view of the Haitian diaspora saga.
Traveling Spirits
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
Author : Gertrud Hüwelmeier
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-12-04
Traveling Spirits written by Gertrud Hüwelmeier and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-04 with Religion categories.
Maintaining and forging religious networks across borders have long been part of migrants' activities. However, due to the wide availability of communication technologies and the reduced costs of transportation, transnational social practices, including religious activities, have witnessed an enormous intensification in the last few decades around the world. Traveling Spirits seeks to understand these processes by investigating how religion goes global. How do religious agents create and maintain transborder connections? In what way are religious practices being transformed, reinforced or newly invented when transported to different places around the world? How are power relations negotiated within transnational religious networks? How are processes of coming and going linked to religious practices and discourses? The book’s contributors provide rich ethnographic case studies on mobile evangelists, moving spirit mediums, and traveling believers. They analyze the relationship between global, regional, national, local and individual religious processes by centering on economic activities, media representations, or politics of emplacement. Grounded firmly in cross-cultural comparison, this book contributes significantly to the literature on globalization, migration and transnational religion.
Demele Making It
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
Author : Rose-Marie Cassagnol Chierici
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Demele Making It written by Rose-Marie Cassagnol Chierici and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Social Science categories.
A portrait of the Haitian boat people, more than one million of whom managed to find their way to the mainland of the USA following the overthrow of the Duvalier regime in 1986.
Geographies Of The Haitian Diaspora
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
Author : Regine O. Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2011-06-27
Geographies Of The Haitian Diaspora written by Regine O. Jackson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-27 with Social Science categories.
This book considers the full sweep of Haitian community invention and recreation in a multitude of national territories, with an eye toward the "place" factors that shape the everyday lives of Haitian migrants. Regine O. Jackson brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore how Haitian communities differ across time and place, as well as how migrants adjust to new economic, political and racial realities. The volume includes descriptive ethnographies of Haitians in 19th century Jamaica, eastern Cuba, Detroit, the Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Paris, and Boston, and innovative scholarly work on non-geographic sites of Haitian community building. The most important question addressed here is not whether the places described represent typical or exceptional Haitian diasporic communities, but how, why and to what effect do Haitians in particular places use diaspora as a signifier. By examining the diversity (and sameness) of the Haitian experience in diaspora, Geographies of the Haitian Diaspora asks how we might situate community in view of increased scholarly attention to transnational processes.
Georges Woke Up Laughing
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
Author : Nina Glick Schiller
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2001-11-14
Georges Woke Up Laughing written by Nina Glick Schiller and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-11-14 with History categories.
DIVA study of how migrants adapt to their new country while still maintaining ties to the old with an emphasis on Haitian migrants to the US./div
Needed But Unwanted
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
Author : Bridget Wooding
language : en
Publisher: CIIR
Release Date : 2004
Needed But Unwanted written by Bridget Wooding and has been published by CIIR this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Dominican Republic categories.
Vodou And Christianity In Interreligious Dialogue
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
Author : Celucien L. Joseph
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2023-10-30
Vodou And Christianity In Interreligious Dialogue written by Celucien L. Joseph and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-30 with Religion categories.
Vodou and Christianity in Interreligious Dialogue addresses both historical factors and ideological issues that created antagonism and conflict between Christians and Vodouists in Haiti. The book offers practical solutions and strategies to help create a harmonious and peaceful environment between religious practitioners associated with Vodou and Christianity. Toward this goal, this volume considers various perspectives and theories, such as autobiography, anthropology, ethnographic fieldwork, religious experience, and gender to examine the subject matter. This volume offers practical examples and resources on how to engage in interreligious dialogue and promote interreligious education in Haiti. There are three philosophical and practical ideas underlying this book project: (1) it is grounded on the belief that religion has value, and it could bring social goods to different communities and enhance human dignity and justice; (2) it is premised on the idea that dialogue and cooperation are necessary for nation-building and human development (as democratic ideals) and that one of the leading functions of the world’s religious traditions is to promote both cooperation and dialogue through mutual understanding and for the common good; and (3) that the power and public role of religion in society can be used as a major force of unification and peace-building among divergent factions and schools of thought, and to promote reconciliation, mutual respect, and friendship in the world.
Gatherings In Diaspora
DOWNLOAD
READ ONLINE
Author : Stephen Warner
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 1998-04-23
Gatherings In Diaspora written by Stephen Warner and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-04-23 with History categories.
Gatherings in Diaspora brings together the latest chapters in the long-running chronicle of religion and immigration in the American experience. Today, as in the past, people migrating to the United States bring their religions with them, and their religious identities often mean more to them away from home, in their diaspora, than they did before. This book explores and analyzes the diverse religious communities of post-1965 diasporas: Christians, Hews, Muslims, Hindus, Rastafarians, and practitioners of Vodou, from countries such as China, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Iran, Jamaica, Korea, and Mexico. The contributors explore how, to a greater or lesser extent, immigrants and their offspring adapt their religious institutions to American conditions, often interacting with religious communities already established. The religious institutions they build, adapt, remodel, and adopt become worlds unto themselves, congregations, where new relations are forged within the community -- between men and women, parents and children, recent arrival and those longer settled.