Nan dòmi
Subtitle: an initiate's journey into Haitian vodou
By: Mimerose P. Beaubrun ; preface by Madison Smartt Bell ; translated by D. J. Walker
Contributors: Bell, Madison Smartt, author of preface; Walker, D. J. (Dolores J.), 1936- translator
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780872865747
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Vodou; Rituals; Initiation rites; Ethnology; Biography; Anthropologists
Work titles: Nan dòmi, le récit d'une initiation vodou
Notes: Translated from the French.

Originally published as Nan dòmi, le récit d'une initiation vodou by Vents d'ailleurs, La Roque d'Anthéron, France, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The teaching of perception with Aunt Tansia; title: Placement of the head; title: Lwa or a state of lucid dreaming?; title: The double and the dream body; title: The purification; title: Manipulating the double; title: Walking in the swarm of stars; title: Fixed in mystical knowledge; title: The eye of the water; title: Establishing a means of communication; title: Manipulating one's gift; title: The importance of Je; title: I remember; title: You must be perspicacious in order to see, or, There are conditions for seeing; title: Having cold eyes, or, The fear of the unknown; title: Laziness, or, Indecision; title: Watch your step, or, Constant attention; title: Witness of the nannan-rèv; title: The farewell ceremony.