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Hardback. New. Connecting four centuries of political, social, and religious history with fieldwork and language documentation, A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou analyzes Haitian Vodou's African origins, transmission to Saint-Domingue, and promulgation through song in contemporary Haiti. Split into two sections, the African chapters focus on history, economics, and culture in Dahomey, Allada, and Hueda while scrutinizing the role of Europeans in fomenting tensions. The political, military, and slave trading histories of the kingdoms in the Bight of Benin reveal the circumstances of enslavement, including the geographies, ethnicities, languages, and cultures of enslavers and enslaved. The study of the spirits, rituals, structure, and music of the region's religions sheds light on important sources for Haitian Vodou. Having royal, public, and private expressions, Vodun spirit-based traditions served as cultural systems that supported or contested power and enslavement. At once suppliers…
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- Title A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou: Rasin Figuier, Rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites
- Author Benjamin Hebblethwaite
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University Press of Mississippi
- Date 2021-09-30
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9781496835604 / 1496835603
- Weight 1.37 lbs (0.62 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.81 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 2.06 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Haiti - Social life and customs, Haiti - Religious life and customs
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2021022939
- Dewey Decimal Code 782.396
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