Rara!: Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora
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Elizabeth McAlister (Author)
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Rara is a vibrant annual street festival in Haiti, when followers of the Afro-Creole religion called Vodou march loudly into public space to take an active role in politics. Working deftly with highly original ethnographic material, Elizabeth McAlister shows how Rara bands harness the power of Vodou spirits and the recently dead to broadcast coded points of view with historical, gendered, and transnational dimensions. 15 b-w photographs
About the Author
Elizabeth McAlister is AssociateProfessor of Religion at Wesleyan University.
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- Contributor: Elizabeth McAlister
- Imprint: University of California Press
- ISBN13: 9780520228238
- Number of Pages: 277
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x20mm
- Packaged Weight: 408
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Release Date: 2002-04-17
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Elizabeth McAlister is AssociateProfessor of Religion at Wesleyan University.
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