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Spirit of Haiti
Language: en
Pages: 361
Authors: Myriam J. A. Chancy
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-11-01 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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Vivid and poignant, Spirit of Haiti follows the intersecting lives of four young witnesses to military-ruled Haiti during the early 1990s. Léah, an apparition,
The Spirits and the Law
Language: en
Pages: 446
Authors: Kate Ramsey
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-07 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Vodou has often served as a scapegoat for Haiti’s problems, from political upheavals to natural disasters. This tradition of scapegoating stretches back to th
Spirit Possession in French, Haitian, and Vodou Thought
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken
Categories: Spirit possession
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher:

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This book recuperates the important history that Haitian thought around Vodou possession has had in French critical theory. The author takes the period of the 1
The Vodou Ethic and the Spirit of Communism
Language: en
Pages: 155
Authors: Paul C. Mocombe
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-04 - Publisher: UPA

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Using a variant of structuration theory, what Paul C. Mocombe calls phenomenological structuralism, this work explores and highlights how the African religion o
Let Spirit Speak!
Language: en
Pages: 164
Authors: Vanessa K. Valdés
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-01 - Publisher: SUNY Press

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Interdisciplinary celebration of the cultural contributions of members of the African Diaspora in the Western hemisphere.