Mama Lola. Voodoo in Brooklyn
About this book
"Karen McCarthy Brown's classic book shatters stereotypes of Vodou by offering an intimate portrait of African-based religion in everyday life. She explores the importance of women's religious practices along with related themes of family and of social change. Weaving several of her own voices--analytic, descriptive, and personal--with the voices of her subjects in alternate chapters of traditional ethnography and ethnographic fiction, Brown presents herself as a character in Mama Lola's world and allows the reader to evaluate her interactions there. Startlingly original, Brown's work endures as an important experiment in ethnography as a social art form rooted in human relationships. A new preface, epilogue, bibliography, and a collection of family photographs tell the story of the effect of the book's publication on Mama Lola's life."--Publisher's description.
Subjects
- 11.09 systematic religious studies: other
- brooklyn (new york, n.y.)
- erlebnisbericht
- ethnicity
- geister
- haitianerin
- magic
- mambos (vodou)
- mambos (voodooism)
- mambo (vaudou)
- noirs américains
- prêtresses
- priesterin
- religion
- superstitions
- united states, religion
- vaudou
- vodou
- voodoo
- voodooism
- wodu