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Title Sacred possessions : Vodou, Santeria, Obeah, and the Caribbean / edited by Margarite Fernandez Olmos and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert.

Imprint New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1997.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  299.609729 Sa14    ---  Available
Description viii, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-299) and index.
Contents Vodoun, or the voice of the gods / Joan Dayan -- Women possessed : eroticism and exoticism in the representation of woman as zombie / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- "I am going to see where my oungan is" : the artistry of a Haitian Vodou flagmaker / Anna Wexler -- Le regla de ocha : the religious system of Santeria / Miguel Barnet -- From The sacred wild to the city : Santeria in Cuba today / Hector Delgado -- From monkey tales to Cuban songs : on signification / Jose Piedra -- Ifa and interpretation : an Afro-Caribbean literary practice / Eugenio Matibag -- Romantic Voodoo : Obeah and British culture, 1797-1807 / Alan Richardson -- "Article of faith" : Obeah and hybrid identities in Elizabeth Nunez-Harrell's When rocks dance / Karla Y.E. Frye -- "Another poor devil of a human being--" : Jean Rhys and the novel as Obeah / Elaine Savory -- Shaman woman, resistance, and the powers of transformation : a tribute to Ma Cia in Simone Schwarz-Bart's The bridge of beyond / Brinda Mehta -- Sorcerers, she-devils, and shipwrecked women : writing religion in French-Caribbean literature / Ivette Romero-Cesareo -- Trans-Caribbean identity and the fictional world of Mayra Montero / Margarite Fernandez Olmos.
Subject Blacks -- Caribbean Area -- Religion.
Caribbean Area -- Religion.
Added Author Fernandez Olmos, Margarite.
Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth.
ISBN 0813523613 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813523605 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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