Rara!: Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora
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Best Sellers Rank: 7520656 in Books
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0520228227
Language : English
Publisher : University of California Press
Publication Date : May 1, 2002
Pages : 277
Rara is a vibrant annual street festival in Haiti, when followers of the Afro-Creole religion called Vodou march loudly into public space to take an active role in politics. Working deftly with highly original ethnographic material, Elizabeth McAlister shows how Rara bands harness the power of Vodou spirits and the recently dead to broadcast coded points of view with historical, gendered, and transnational dimensions.