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A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou : Rasin Figuier, Rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites
Title
A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou : Rasin Figuier, Rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites / Benjamin Hebblethwaite.
ISBN
9781496835659
9781496835604
9781496835611
Publication
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©[2021]
Physical Description
1 online resource (288 pages): illustrations, maps
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Summary
"Connecting four centuries of political, social, and religious history with fieldwork and language documentation, A transatlantic history of Haitian Vodou analyzes Haitian Vodou's African origins, transmission to Saint-Domingue, and promulgation through song in contemporary Haiti. Split into two sections, the African chapters focus on history, economics, and culture in Dahomey, Allada, and Hueda while scrutinizing the role of Europeans in fomenting tensions. The Haitian chapters focus on Vodou's Rada Rite (from Allada) and Gede Rite (from Abomey) through the songs of Rasin Figuier's Vodou Lakay and Rasin Bwa Kayiman's Guede, legendary rasin compact discs released on Jean Altidor's Miami label, "Mass Konpa Records." All the Vodou songs on the discs are analyzed with a method dubbed "Vodou hermeneutics" that harnesses history, religious studies, linguistics, literary criticism, and ethnomusicology in order to advance a scholarly approach to Vodou songs"-- Provided by publisher.
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Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Contents
Introduction: Rada and Gede in transatlantic history
The African political roots of Haitian Vodou: the Aja-Fon and Gedevi-Yoruba kingdoms and the slave trade
The African spiritual roots of Haitian Vodou: the religious cultures of the Aja-Fon and Gedevi-Yoruba
The Rada Rite in Haiti: Rasin Figuier's Vodou Lakay
The Gede Rite in Haiti: Rasin Bwa Kayiman's Guede
Chains and rainbows over the Atlantic.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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