Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn
Karen McCarthy Brown
Karen McCarthy Brown's classic book shatters stereotypes of Vodou by offering an intimate portrait of African-based religion in everyday life. She explores the importance of women's religious practices along with related themes of family and of social change. Weaving several of her own voices--analytic, descriptive, and personal--with the voices of her subjects in alternate chapters of traditional ethnography and ethnographic fiction, Brown presents herself as a character in Mama Lola's world and allows the reader to evaluate her interactions there. Startlingly original, Brown's work endures as an important experiment in ethnography as a social art form rooted in human relationships. A new preface, epilogue, bibliography, and a collection of family photographs tell the story of the effect of the book's publication on Mama Lola's life.
Tahun:
2001
Edisi:
Updated & Expanded
Penerbit:
University of California Press
Bahasa:
english
Halaman:
447
ISBN 10:
0520224752
ISBN 13:
9780520224759
Nama seri:
Comparative Studies in Religion and Society 4
File:
PDF, 19.12 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2001