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Migration and Vodou (Paperback)
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Migration and Vodou (Paperback)
Series: New World Diasporas
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This book and accompanying compact disc provide a rare excursion in
the innovative ways a community of Haitian migrants to South
Florida has maintained religious traditions and familial
connections. It demonstrates how religion, ritual, and aesthetic
practices affect lives on both sides of the Caribbean, and it
debunks myths of exotic and primitive vodou (often spelled
""voodoo""), which have long been used against Haitians. As Karen
Richman shows, Haitians at home and in migrant settlements make
ingenious use of audio and video tapes to extend the boundaries of
their ritual spaces and to reinforce their moral and spiritual
anchors to one another. The book and CD were produced in
collaboration to give the reader intimate access to this new
expressive media. Sacred songs are recorded on tapes and circulated
among the communities. Migrants are able to hear not only the
performance sounds--drumming, singing, and chatter--but also a
description, as narrators tell of offerings, sacrifices, prayers,
and the exchange of possessions. Spirits who inhabit the bodies of
ritual actors are aware of the recording devices and personally
address the absent migrants, sometimes warning them of their
financial obligations to family members in Haiti. The migrants'
dependence on their home village is dramatically reinforced while
their economic independence is restricted. Using standard
ethnographic methods, Richman's work illuminates the connections
among social organization, power, production, ritual, and
aesthetics. With its transnational perspective, it shows how labor
migration has become one of Haiti's chief economic exports. A
volume in the series New World Diasporas, edited by Kevin A.
Yelvington
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