Rara! Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora

Name: Rara! Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora
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ISBN: 9780520228238

ISBN-10: 0520228235

ISBN-13: 9780520228238

Edition: 2002

Authors: Elizabeth McAlister

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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.

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 277
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Notes to the Compact Disc: Rara! Introducing Rara



Work and Play, Pleasure and Performance



Vulgarity and the Politics of the Small Man



Mystical Work: Spirits on Parade



Rara and "the Jew": Premodern Anti-Judaism in Postmodern Haiti



Rara as Popular Army: Hierarchy, Militarism, and Warfare



Voices under Domination: Rara and the Politics of Insecurity



Rara in New York City: Transnational Popular Culture



Chronology of Political Events, 1990-1995, Annotated with Transnational Rara Band Activity


Glossary


Notes


Sources


Index