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academic
afro creole
Author_Elizabeth McAlister
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diaspora
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ethnographic
festival
gender issues
haiti
haitian government
haitian politics
haitian tradition
hierarchy
historical
island culture
performance
political
politics
popular culture
religion
scholarly
spiritual
spirituality
street festival
tradition
traditional
transnational
vodou
vulgarity
warfare
wartime
Product details
- ISBN 9780520228238
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2002
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Elizabeth McAlister is AssociateProfessor of Religion at Wesleyan University.
