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Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn
Karen McCarthy Brown
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Description for Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn
Paperback. Mama Lola shatters the stereotypes by offering an intimate portrait of Vodou in everyday life. The author tells tales spanning five generations of Vodou healers in Mama Lola's family, beginning with an African ancestor and ending with Claudine Michel's account of working with Mama Lola after the Haitian earthquake. Series: Comparative Studies in Religion & Society. Num Pages: 472 pages, 47 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: HRKT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 650.
Vodou is among the most misunderstood and maligned of the world's religions. Mama Lola shatters the stereotypes by offering an intimate portrait of Vodou in everyday life. Drawing on a 35 year long friendship with Mama Lola, a Vodou priestess, Karen McCarthy Brown tells tales spanning five generations of Vodou healers in Mama Lola's family, beginning with an African ancestor and ending with Claudine Michel's account of working with Mama Lola after the Haitian earthquake. Out of these stories, in which dream and vision flavor everyday experience and the Vodou spirits guide decision making, Vodou emerges as a religion focused ... Read more
Vodou is among the most misunderstood and maligned of the world's religions. Mama Lola shatters the stereotypes by offering an intimate portrait of Vodou in everyday life. Drawing on a 35 year long friendship with Mama Lola, a Vodou priestess, Karen McCarthy Brown tells tales spanning five generations of Vodou healers in Mama Lola's family, beginning with an African ancestor and ending with Claudine Michel's account of working with Mama Lola after the Haitian earthquake. Out of these stories, in which dream and vision flavor everyday experience and the Vodou spirits guide decision making, Vodou emerges as a religion focused ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
472
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Comparative Studies in Religion & Society
Condition
New
Weight
671g
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520268104
SKU
V9780520268104
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About Karen McCarthy Brown
Karen McCarthy Brown is Professor Emerita of the Sociology and Anthropology of Religion at the Graduate and Theological Schools of Drew University. Claudine Michel is Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Reviews for Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn
"Brown has written a life story that is full of feeling."
Los Angeles Times
"Brown's ethnographic short stories vividly capture the complicated personal history that is summed up in Mama Lola's full name and they also dramatize the larger social processes at work in Haiti's recent history . . . Mama Lola provides an engaging, detailed, and sympathetic account of ... Read more
Los Angeles Times
"Brown's ethnographic short stories vividly capture the complicated personal history that is summed up in Mama Lola's full name and they also dramatize the larger social processes at work in Haiti's recent history . . . Mama Lola provides an engaging, detailed, and sympathetic account of ... Read more