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Sacred arts of Haitian vodou / Donald J. Cosentino, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Los Angeles, Calif. : UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, c1995.Description: 443 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 31 cmISBN:
  • 0930741463
  • 9780930741471 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 704.9/489967 20
LOC classification:
  • 110 ND 237 S123 1995
Contents:
Imagine heaven / Donald J. Cosentino -- Vodun: West African roots of Vodou / Suzanne Preston Blier -- From the isle beneath the sea: Haiti's Africanizing Vodou art / Robert Farris Thompson -- Social history of Haitian Vodou / Sidney Mintz & Michel-Rolph Trouillot -- Underground realms of being: Vodoun magic / Rachel Beauvoir-Dominique -- American fantasy and Haitian Vodou / Laennec Hurbon -- Serving the spirits: the ritual economy of Haitian Vodou ;/ Karen McCarthy Brown -- The altar room: a dialogue / Mama Lola & Karen McCarthy Brown.
It's all for you, Sen Jak! / Donald J. Consentino -- Magique Marasa: the ritual cosmos of twins and other sacred children / Marilyn Houlberg -- My double mystic marriages to goddesses of love, an interview / George Rene & Marilyn Houlberg -- A sorcerer's bottle: the visual art of magic in Haiti / Elizabeth McAlister -- Sacred banners and the divine cavalry charge / Patrick Polk -- The sequin arts of Vodou / Tina Girouard -- The style of his hand: the iron art of Georges Liataud / Randall Morris -- Envoi: the Gedes and Bawon Samdi / Donald J. Cosentino.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Recursos Regionales Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso) 110 ND 237 S123 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000040596

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 / Donald J. Cosentino -- Vodun: West African roots of Vodou / Suzanne Preston Blier -- From the isle beneath the sea: Haiti's Africanizing Vodou art / Robert Farris Thompson -- Social history of Haitian Vodou / Sidney Mintz & Michel-Rolph Trouillot -- Underground realms of being: Vodoun magic / Rachel Beauvoir-Dominique -- American fantasy and Haitian Vodou / Laennec Hurbon -- Serving the spirits: the ritual economy of Haitian Vodou ;/ Karen McCarthy Brown -- The altar room: a dialogue / Mama Lola & Karen McCarthy Brown.

It's all for you, Sen Jak! / Donald J. Consentino -- Magique Marasa: the ritual cosmos of twins and other sacred children / Marilyn Houlberg -- My double mystic marriages to goddesses of love, an interview / George Rene & Marilyn Houlberg -- A sorcerer's bottle: the visual art of magic in Haiti / Elizabeth McAlister -- Sacred banners and the divine cavalry charge / Patrick Polk -- The sequin arts of Vodou / Tina Girouard -- The style of his hand: the iron art of Georges Liataud / Randall Morris -- Envoi: the Gedes and Bawon Samdi / Donald J. Cosentino.

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