/ [edited by] Claudine Michel and Patrick Bellegarde-Smith
1st ed.
New York
: Palgrave Macmillan,
, 2006.
xiv, 242 p. 24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Invisible powers : an introduction --1.Afro-Caribben spirituality : a Haitian case study /Karen McCarthy Brown --2.Vodou in Haiti : way of life and mode of survival /Claudine Michel --3.African interpretations of the Christian cross in vodou /Leslie Gerald Desmangles --4. Thesong of freedom : vodou, conscientization and popular culture in Haiti /Gerdes Fleurant --5.Yon moso twal nan bwa =Apiece of cloth on wood : the drapo vodou in myths of origin /Anna Wexler --6. "TheJew" in the Haitian imagination : pre-modern anti-Judaism in the post-modern Caribbean / Elizabeth A. McAlister --7.Resisting freedom : cultural factors in democracy-the case for Haiti /Patrick Bellegarde-Smith --8. The Haiti-New Orleans vodou connection : Zora Neale Hurston as initiate observer /Richard Brent Turner --9.Water in their eyes, dust on their land : heat and illness in a Haitian town /Pierre Minn --10.How Houngans use the light from distant stars /LeGrace Benson --11.Vodou in Haitian literature /Carrol F. Coates --12.It's all for you, Sen Jak! /Donald J. Cosentino --Notes on contributors --Index.