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Author: Mimerose Beaubrun Publisher: City Lights Publishers ISBN: 0872865746 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 282
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Offers an insider's account of Vodou's private, mystical, interior practice, discussing the author's own initiation and education in the religion.
Author: Mimerose Beaubrun Publisher: City Lights Publishers ISBN: 0872865746 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 282
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Offers an insider's account of Vodou's private, mystical, interior practice, discussing the author's own initiation and education in the religion.
Author: Nigel Phillips Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521237376 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 282
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Sijobang - the singing of a poetic narrative about the legendary hero Anggun Nan Tungga - is a form of popular entertainment in the area around Payakumbuh, in the highlands of West Sumatra. Although the story exists as a written text, it is best known locally as drama and sung narrative, and it is its character as an oral performance that forms the subject of this book. Nigel Phillips begins by setting sijobang in its cultural and literary context, and then goes on to describe the social background and training of the paid storytellers who perform the narrative. He presents a summary of the story, and discusses its transient, fragmentary and unstandardized form. Transcriptions and translations of two recorded performances follow, leading into a description of sijobang's main linguistic and literary features. Finally, Dr Phillips examines in some detail the extent to which performances vary from one occasion to another, and what connection this may have with the storyteller's degree of experience.
Author: Celucien L. Joseph Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 1498508324 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 290
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One glaring lacuna in studies of Haitian Vodou is the scarcity of works exploring the connection between the religion and its main roots, traditional Yoruba religion. Discussions of Vodou very often seem to present the religion in vacuo, as a sui generis phenomenon that arose in Saint-Domingue and evolved in Haiti, with no antecedents. What is sorely needed then is more comparative studies of Haitian Vodou that would examine its connections to traditional Yoruba religion and thus illuminate certain aspects of its mythology, belief system, practices, and rituals. This book seeks to bridge these gaps. Vodou in the Haitian Experience studies comparatively the connections and relationships between Vodou and African traditional religions such as Yoruba religion and Egyptian religion. Such studies might enhance our understanding of the religion, and the connections between Africa and its Diaspora through shared religious patterns and practices. The general reader should be mindful of the transnational and transcultural perspectives of Vodou, as well as the cultural, socio-economic, and political context which gave birth to different visions and ideas of Vodou. The chapters in this collection tell a story about the dynamics of the Vodou faith and the rich ways Vodou has molded the Haitian narrative and psyche. The contributors of this book examine this constructed narrative from a multicultural voice that engages critically the discipline of ethnomusicology, drama, performance, art, anthropology, ethnography, economics, literature, intellectual history, philosophy, psychology, sociology, religion, and theology. Vodou is also studied from multiple theoretical approaches including queer, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, postcolonial criticism, postmodernism, and psychoanalysis.
Author: Donald L. Sparks Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing ISBN: 9780120007868 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 424
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Volume 88 of Advances in Agronomy contains eight timely reviews on topics dealing with biodiversity, carbon sequestration, crop improvement, nitrogen dynamics, and the discipline of soil science. Discussions include but are not limited to: Agriculture, soil biodiversity, climate change and agricultural diversity; ways to improve soil aeration, oxygation and plant processes, and oxygation scenarios; and pre-sowing seed treatment as a means for improving germination, plant growth and crop yield. Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy. As always, the subjects covered are varied and exemplary of the myraid of subject matter dealt with by this long-running serial. Over 40 figures and 32 tables Presents a review of the present and future status of soil science Offers an analysis of biodiversity in agronomy
Author: Milo Rigaud Publisher: City Lights Books ISBN: 9780872861718 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 230
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Secrets of Voodoo traces the development of this complex religion (in Haiti and the Americas) from its sources in the brilliant civilizations of ancient Africa. This book presents a straightforward account of the gods or loas and their function, the symbols and signs, rituals, the ceremonial calendar of Voodoo, and the procedures for performing magical rites are given. "Voodoo," derived from words meaning "introspection" and "mystery," is a system of belief about the formation of the world and human destiny with clear correspondences in other world religions. Rigaud makes these connections and discloses the esoteric meaning underlying Voodoo's outward manifestations, which are often misinterpreted. Translated from the French by Robert B. Cross. Drawings and photographs by Odette Mennesson-Rigaud. Milo Rigaud was born in Port au Prince, Haiti, in 1903, where he spent the greater part of his life studying the Voodoo tradition. In Haiti he studied law, and in France ethnology, psychology, and theology. The involvement of Voodoo in the political struggle of Haitian blacks for independence was one of his main concerns.
Author: Michael Deibert Publisher: Seven Stories Press ISBN: 1609801059 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 482
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Notes from the Last Testament, by veteran reporter Michael Deibert, is a riveting narrative account of the events leading up to and including the overthrow of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A fearless correspondent and a meticulous researcher, Deibert traces the rupturing of the social-democratic coalition that originally brought Aristide to power and that had been the fruit of years of opposition to the dictatorships and military juntas. From chaotic scenes of frenzied mayhem on the streets of the bidonvilles of Port-au-Prince with their armed gangs and burning intersections to heated debates in the halls of power, these dramatic events throw into stark relief the obstacles facing the world's nascent democracies, the trend of first world military intervention in third world affairs, and the dual legacies of slavery and colonialism. In a remarkable and deeply humane synthesis of on-the-ground perspectives and exhaustive research, Deibert sets vivid personal testimonies alongside an analysis of the country's rich history that reaches back to Haiti's first days as a colony, to the time of the rebellion led by the former slave Toussaint Louverture, and extends to the present, ultimately exploring how Aristide, once a beacon of populism and democratic aspirations, came to embody brutality and misrule in the tradition of his predecessors. Along the way, Deibert introduces us to the real heroes of the Hatian people's struggle for a just and independent society free from violence and corruption.
Author: Nicole Titus Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 9781479709489 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 194
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Book Summary: From Disaster to Hope is a series of interviews conducted by the author with 11 individuals affected by the January 12th, 2010 Haiti earthquake, including that of one man who landed in the country only hours before the quake. It contains the gripping reports of people who went to Haiti to help, as well as that of the Israeli UN Ambassador, and a current member of the peace keeping troupe. Rezime Liv La De Dezas a Espwa se yon seri de entèvyou ke otè a fè avèk 11 moun tranblemandetè 12 janvye 2010 la te afekte, pami yo, yon moun ki debake ann Ayiti kèlkezè sèlman anvan tranblemandetè a. Li rapòte tou gwo eksperyans moun ki te ale ann Ayiti pou pote sekou, ansanm ak rapò anbasadè Izrayeli a, e pawòl yon manm MUNISTAH.
Author: Odile Ferly Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3031321111 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 318
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This book deconstructs androcentric approaches to spacetime inherited from western modernity through its theoretical frame of the chronotropics. It sheds light on the literary acts of archival disruption, radical remapping, and epistemic marronnage by twenty-first-century Caribbean women writers to restore a connection to spacetime, expanding it within and beyond the region. Arguing that the chronotropics points to a vocation for social justice and collective healing, this pan-Caribbean volume returns to autochthonous ontologies and epistemologies to propose a poetics and politics of the chronotropics that is anticolonial, gender inclusive, pluralistic, and non-anthropocentric. This is an open access book.
Author: Alan F. Dixson Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199544646 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 808
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Primate Sexuality provides a synthesis of current research on the evolution and physiological control of sexual behaviour in the primates - prosimians, monkeys, apes, and human beings. This new edition has been updated and greatly expanded throughout to incorporate a decade of new research findings.
Author: Mimerose Beaubrun
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