Vodun - Secrecy and the Search for Divine Power

Highlighting the ways in which racialization, power, and the legacy of colonialism affect the procurement and transmission of secret knowledge in West Africa and beyond, Landry demonstrates how, paradoxically, secrecy is critically important to Vodún's global expansion.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note on Orthography and Style

Introduction

Chapter 1. Touring the Forbidden

Chapter 2. Receiving the Forest

Chapter 3. Secrecy, Objects, and Expanding Markets

Chapter 4. Belief, Efficacy, and Transnationalism

Chapter 5. Global Vodún, Diversity, and Looking Ahead

Epilogue

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Acknowledgments

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Timothy R. Landry teaches anthropology and religious studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Timothy R Landry, Timothy R. Landry
• Verlag: University of pennsylvania pr
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780812225259
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2525-9
• Seiten: 277
• Serie: Contemporary Ethnography
• Themen: Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Religion: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Ethnologie > Völkerkunde