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Healing in the homeland : Haitian vodou tradition / Margaret Mitchell Armand.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, 2013Description: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780739173626
  • 0739173626
  • 1299814271
  • 9781299814271
  • 1498521835
  • 9781498521833
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Healing in the homelandDDC classification:
  • 306.097294 23
LOC classification:
  • HN212.5 .A75 2013eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Ch01. Loko Atisou; Ch02. Lenglensou; Ch03. The Audacity of Faith Keeps the Drums Beating; Ch04. The Poto Mitan of Decolonization; Ch05. Gran Bwa; Ch06. Azaka Mede; Ch07. United We Are in the Realms of the Lwas; Epilogue; Appendix A. Genocide Convention; Appendix B. Willie Lynch Letter: The Making of a Slave; Appendix C. Petition for Successful Affranchissement; Appendix D. Indigenous Peoples' Forumat the United Nations; Appendix E. Indigenous Peoples' Rights
Appendix F. United Nations Protection of the Heritage of Indigenous PeopleAppendix G. Haïti's Mineral Resources; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author; Artist's Statement
Summary: Healing in the Homeland: Haitian Vodou Traditions examines the socio-cultural and economic oppression stemming from the local and international derived politics and religious economic oppression. While concentrating the narratives on stories of Indigenous elites educated in the western traditions, Armand moves pass the variables of race to locate the historical conjuncture at the root of the persistent Haitian national division.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)634994

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Healing in the Homeland: Haitian Vodou Traditions examines the socio-cultural and economic oppression stemming from the local and international derived politics and religious economic oppression. While concentrating the narratives on stories of Indigenous elites educated in the western traditions, Armand moves pass the variables of race to locate the historical conjuncture at the root of the persistent Haitian national division.

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Ch01. Loko Atisou; Ch02. Lenglensou; Ch03. The Audacity of Faith Keeps the Drums Beating; Ch04. The Poto Mitan of Decolonization; Ch05. Gran Bwa; Ch06. Azaka Mede; Ch07. United We Are in the Realms of the Lwas; Epilogue; Appendix A. Genocide Convention; Appendix B. Willie Lynch Letter: The Making of a Slave; Appendix C. Petition for Successful Affranchissement; Appendix D. Indigenous Peoples' Forumat the United Nations; Appendix E. Indigenous Peoples' Rights

Appendix F. United Nations Protection of the Heritage of Indigenous PeopleAppendix G. Haïti's Mineral Resources; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author; Artist's Statement

English.