Vodun: Secrecy and the Search for Divine Power
Highlighting the ways in which racialization, power, and the legacy of colonialism affect the procurement and transmission of secret knowledge in West Africa and beyond, Landry demonstrates how, paradoxically, secrecy is critically important to Vodún's global expansion
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Press
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | Contemporary Ethnography Ser
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Volltext (Aggregator) |
| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: Landry, Timothy R: Vodun : Secrecy and the Search for Divine Power. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,c2018. - 9780812250749 |
| Summary: | Highlighting the ways in which racialization, power, and the legacy of colonialism affect the procurement and transmission of secret knowledge in West Africa and beyond, Landry demonstrates how, paradoxically, secrecy is critically important to Vodún's global expansion Cover -- Contents -- A Note on Orthography and Style -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Touring the Forbidden -- Chapter 2. Receiving the Forest -- Chapter 3. Secrecy, Objects, and Expanding Markets -- Chapter 4. Belief, Efficacy, and Transnationalism -- Chapter 5. Global Vodún, Diversity, and Looking Ahead -- Epilogue. Reflections on Belief and Apprenticeship -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Acknowledgments |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (214 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8122-9563-4 |
