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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Main Author: Landry, Timothy R. (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press 2018
In:Year: 2018
Series/Journal:Contemporary Ethnography Ser
Online Access: Volltext (Aggregator)
Parallel Edition:Print version: Landry, Timothy R: Vodun : Secrecy and the Search for Divine Power. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,c2018. - 9780812250749