Sacred possessions
Subtitle: Vodou, Santería, Obeah, and the Caribbean
By: edited by Margarite Fernández Olmos and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert.
Contributors: Fernández Olmos, Margarite.; Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780813523606; 9780813523613
Subjects: Blacks -- Caribbean Area -- Religion; Caribbean Area -- Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-299) and index.
Table of contents: title: Vodoun, or the voice of the gods / Joan Dayan; title: Women possessed : eroticism and exoticism in the representation of woman as zombie / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert; title: "I am going to see where my oungan is" : the artistry of a Haitian Vodou flagmaker / Anna Wexler; title: Le regla de ocha : the religious system of Santería / Miguel Barnet; title: From The sacred wild to the city : Santería in Cuba today / Héctor Delgado; title: From monkey tales to Cuban songs : on signification / José Piedra; title: Ifá and interpretation : an Afro-Caribbean literary practice / Eugenio Matibag; title: Romantic Voodoo : Obeah and British culture, 1797-1807 / Alan Richardson; title: "An article of faith" : Obeah and hybrid identities in Elizabeth Nunez-Harrell's When rocks dance / Karla Y.E. Frye; title: "Another poor devil of a human being; title: " : Jean Rhys and the novel as Obeah / Elaine Savory; title: The shaman woman, resistance, and the powers of transformation : a tribute to Ma Cia in Simone Schwarz-Bart's The bridge of beyond / Brinda Mehta; title: Sorcerers, she-devils, and shipwrecked women : writing religion in French-Caribbean literature / Ivette Romero-Cesareo; title: Trans-Caribbean identity and the fictional world of Mayra Montero / Margarite Fernández Olmos.