Rara! e-bog
302,96 DKK
(inkl. moms 378,70 DKK)
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 t...
E-bog
302,96 DKK
Udgivet
1 maj 2002
Længde
277 sider
Genrer
1KJH
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780520926745
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.