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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.
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Mama Lola. Voodoo in Brooklyn., Karen McCarthy Brown
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2000
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- (Copertina rigida)
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- Titolo
- Mama Lola. Voodoo in Brooklyn.
- Lingua
- Tedesco
- Autori
- Karen McCarthy Brown
- Editore
- Europäische Verlagsanstalt
- Pubblicato
- 2000
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 479
- ISBN10
- 3434504494
- ISBN13
- 9783434504498
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Scienze sociali, Tema stórico, Storie vere, Biografie, Temi religiosi, Spiritualità e Religione, Biografie, Etnografia, Antropologia, Biografie di donne, Voodoo, Haiti
- Valutazione
- 4,35 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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.