Sacred arts of Haitian vodou /

Sacred arts of Haitian vodou / Donald J. Cosentino, editor. - Los Angeles, Calif. : UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, c1995. - 443 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 31 cm.

Catalog of exhibition organized by and held at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, and traveling to four other venues in the U.S.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 434-442).

Imagine heaven / Vodun: West African roots of Vodou / From the isle beneath the sea: Haiti's Africanizing Vodou art / Social history of Haitian Vodou / Underground realms of being: Vodoun magic / American fantasy and Haitian Vodou / Serving the spirits: the ritual economy of Haitian Vodou ;/ The altar room: a dialogue / Donald J. Cosentino -- Suzanne Preston Blier -- Robert Farris Thompson -- Sidney Mintz & Michel-Rolph Trouillot -- Rachel Beauvoir-Dominique -- Laennec Hurbon -- Karen McCarthy Brown -- Mama Lola & Karen McCarthy Brown. It's all for you, Sen Jak! / Magique Marasa: the ritual cosmos of twins and other sacred children / My double mystic marriages to goddesses of love, an interview / A sorcerer's bottle: the visual art of magic in Haiti / Sacred banners and the divine cavalry charge / The sequin arts of Vodou / The style of his hand: the iron art of Georges Liataud / Envoi: the Gedes and Bawon Samdi / Donald J. Cosentino. Donald J. Consentino -- Marilyn Houlberg -- George Rene & Marilyn Houlberg -- Elizabeth McAlister -- Patrick Polk -- Tina Girouard -- Randall Morris --

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Art, Haitian--Exhibitions.
Voodooism in art--Exhibitions.
Art, West African--Influence--Exhibitions.
Primitivism in art--Haiti--Exhibitions.
Voodoo.
CEH
Colección Estudios Haitianos

110 ND 237 / S123 1995

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