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Author : Marjolijn Aalders Grool
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Benin
ISBN : 3896457349
Collection of 37 story texts, "gwènùxó," told by 15 performers in three villages of southern Benin, transcribed from recordings made April-June 1976.
Author : Douglas J. Falen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780299318901
A sensitive investigation into Benin's occult world, in which magic, science, and the Vodun religion converge into a single universal force. Falen demonstrates how a deep engagement with another lived reality opens our minds and contributes to understanding across cultural difference.
Author : Timothy R. Landry
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812250749
Tourists to Ouidah, a city on the coast of the Republic of Bénin, in West Africa, typically visit a few well-known sites of significance to the Vodún religion—the Python Temple, where Dangbé, the python spirit, is worshipped, and King Kpasse's sacred forest, which is the seat of the Vodún deity known as Lokò. However, other, less familiar places, such as the palace of the so-called supreme chief of Vodún in Bénin, are also rising in popularity as tourists become increasingly adventurous and as more Vodún priests and temples make themselves available to foreigners in the hopes of earning extra money. Timothy R. Landry examines the connections between local Vodún priests and spiritual seekers who travel to Bénin—some for the snapshot, others for full-fledged initiation into the religion. He argues that the ways in which the Vodún priests and tourists negotiate the transfer of confidential, sacred knowledge create its value. The more secrecy that surrounds Vodún ritual practice and material culture, the more authentic, coveted, and, consequently, expensive that knowledge becomes. Landry writes as anthropologist and initiate, having participated in hundreds of Vodún ceremonies, rituals, and festivals. Examining the role of money, the incarnation of deities, the limits of adaptation for the transnational community, and the belief in spirits, sorcery, and witchcraft, Vodún ponders the ethical implications of producing and consuming culture by local and international agents. 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.
Author : Benjamin Hebblethwaite
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496835642
Connecting four centuries of political, social, and religious history with fieldwork and language documentation, A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou analyzes Haitian Vodou’s African origins, transmission to Saint-Domingue, and promulgation through song in contemporary Haiti. Split into two sections, the African chapters focus on history, economics, and culture in Dahomey, Allada, and Hueda while scrutinizing the role of Europeans in fomenting tensions. The political, military, and slave trading histories of the kingdoms in the Bight of Benin reveal the circumstances of enslavement, including the geographies, ethnicities, languages, and cultures of enslavers and enslaved. The study of the spirits, rituals, structure, and music of the region’s religions sheds light on important sources for Haitian Vodou. Having royal, public, and private expressions, Vodun spirit-based traditions served as cultural systems that supported or contested power and enslavement. At once suppliers and victims of the European slave trade, the people of Dahomey, Allada, and Hueda deeply shaped the emergence of Haiti’s creolized culture. The Haitian chapters focus on Vodou’s Rada Rite (from Allada) and Gede Rite (from Abomey) through the songs of Rasin Figuier’s Vodou Lakay and Rasin Bwa Kayiman’s Guede, legendary rasin compact discs released on Jean Altidor’s Miami label, Mass Konpa Records. All the Vodou songs on the discs are analyzed with a method dubbed “Vodou hermeneutics” that harnesses history, religious studies, linguistics, literary criticism, and ethnomusicology in order to advance a scholarly approach to Vodou songs.
Author : Douglas J. Falen
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Benin
ISBN : 1592217885
The Fon are the dominant ethnic group in the southern part of the Republic of Benin, West Africa. The hold a prominent place in African cultural studies for their traditional Vodun ('Voodoo') religion and are well known to historical and gender studies for their pre-colonial deployment of female ministers and soldiers. Giving a detailed account of gendered power strategies - highlighted by male perspectives on female power - in contemporary Fon culture, Power and Paradox is an important ethnographic update on Fon culture.
Author : Stuart Butler
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Travel
ISBN : 184162148X
National parks game viewing markets pristine tropical beaches and surfing are just some of the highlights of Benin that are readily available Z99 aid of this guide which caters to cultural and historical visitors those tracing their roots in Benin
Author : Chris Starace
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781462046232
Just out of college seeking the adventure of his life and an opportunity to do good, Chris Starace joined the Peace Corps and was sent to Benin, West Africa for two years from 1995 to 1997. The challenge was great, and he was pushed to the limit in adapting to a starkly different culture while living on a meager $6 a day. He made many discoveries about himself, as well as an exotic land. Delving into the culture and creating strong relationships with the people led him to appreciate numerous aspects of Benin, while many outsiders are unable to see past its shortcomings. To Benin and Back recounts a variety of unique experiences from an insiders perspective such as living in a remote village, exploring the regional market, harrowing bush taxi rides, odd encounters with Voodoo, having a strange illness diagnosed by a very imaginative traditional healer, being stuck in a sandstorm in the Sahara desert, and humorous anecdotes about adapting to the Beninese culture, insects, snakes, domestic animals and children. When he returned to the United States, he was forced to reevaluate his own culture while dealing with severe reverse culture shock. Traveling back to Benin seven years later allowed him relive, reexamine and assess his long-term contribution.
Author : Annie Caulfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Travel
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113404151
This is a travel book about Dahomey (Benin) - an inhospitable country in Africa where corruption is rife and where Catholicism shares a place with Gri Gri, the local Voodoo. The muslim north of the country is arid and tough, whereas the south is colourful, sophisticated and artistic. The countryside ranges from pretty English rural, to arid sub-Sahara.
Author : Monique Joiner Siedlak
Publisher : Oshun Publications, LLC
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781950378623
Understanding West African Vodun begins with knowledge. West African Vodun explores and explains this often-misunderstood religion. It invites readers to open their eyes and their minds to what Vodun is, where and why began, and how it’s practiced. You may think you know everything you need to know because you’ve seen Hollywood’s interpretation of these spiritual practices, but this book proves those theories, misconceptions, artistic licenses, and theories wrong. Inside, you’ll discover: Vodun’s early days and how it plays a pivotal role in how it’s practiced now How and why it’s been mis-characterized How to practice it properly Who the deities are and why they’re honored Who the Priestesses are and why they are held to such esteem And more! Finally learn how Vodun, Hindu, Shango, Jesus and the Buddha are far more alike than you may think and understand what role slavery and slaves play in this religion and why it should matter to you.
Author : William John Argyle
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon P
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Benin
ISBN : UOM:39015027233199
Author : Celucien L. Joseph,Nixon S. Cleophat
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498508322
One glaring lacuna in studies of Haitian Vodou is the scarcity of works exploring the connection between the religion and its main roots, traditional Yoruba religion. Discussions of Vodou very often seem to present the religion in vacuo, as a sui generis phenomenon that arose in Saint-Domingue and evolved in Haiti, with no antecedents. What is sorely needed then is more comparative studies of Haitian Vodou that would examine its connections to traditional Yoruba religion and thus illuminate certain aspects of its mythology, belief system, practices, and rituals. This book seeks to bridge these gaps. Vodou in the Haitian Experience studies comparatively the connections and relationships between Vodou and African traditional religions such as Yoruba religion and Egyptian religion. Such studies might enhance our understanding of the religion, and the connections between Africa and its Diaspora through shared religious patterns and practices. The general reader should be mindful of the transnational and transcultural perspectives of Vodou, as well as the cultural, socio-economic, and political context which gave birth to different visions and ideas of Vodou. The chapters in this collection tell a story about the dynamics of the Vodou faith and the rich ways Vodou has molded the Haitian narrative and psyche. The contributors of this book examine this constructed narrative from a multicultural voice that engages critically the discipline of ethnomusicology, drama, performance, art, anthropology, ethnography, economics, literature, intellectual history, philosophy, psychology, sociology, religion, and theology. Vodou is also studied from multiple theoretical approaches including queer, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, postcolonial criticism, postmodernism, and psychoanalysis.
Author : Stephen Belcher
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141935317
Gathering a wide range of traditional African myths, this compelling new collection offers tales of heroes battling mighty serpents and monstrous birds, brutal family conflict and vengeance, and desperate migrations across vast and alien lands. From impassioned descriptions of animal-creators to dramatic stories of communities forced to flee monstrous crocodiles, all the narratives found here concern origins - whether of the universe, peoples or families. Together, they create a kaleidoscopic picture of the rich and varied oral traditions that have shaped the culture and society of successive generations of Africans for thousands of years, throughout the long struggle to survive and explore this massive and environmentally diverse continent.
Author : Suzanne Preston Blier
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995-03-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226058581
Throughout, Blier pushes African art history to a new height of cultural awareness that recognizes the complexity of traditional African societies as it acknowledges the role of social power in shaping aesthetics and meaning generally.
Author : Jeremy Seymour Eades,Christopher Allen
Publisher : Oxford, England : Clio Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022346659
Describes material relating to the small West African country that was formerly known as the Republic of Dahomey. Some of the sections focus on types of material, including travel guides, travellers' accounts, archives and libraries, and bibliographies. Most however consider topics such as the environment ad natural resources, history, politics, trade, religion, performing arts, and statistics. Includes one simple map. Indexed by title and author as well as subject. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Patricia Ann Lynch,Jeremy Roberts
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781438131337
The African continent is home to a fascinating and strong tradition of myth, due in part to the long history of human habitation in Africa; the diversity of its geography, flora, and fauna; and the variety of its cultural beliefs. African Mythology A to Z is a readable reference to the deities, places, events, animals, beliefs, and other subjects that appear in the myths of various African peoples. For the first time, this edition features full-color photographs and illustrations.Coverage includes:
