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Rara!: vodou, power, and performance in Haiti and its diaspora
Elizabeth A McAlister
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Frontmatter
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List of Illustrations (page xi)
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Acknowledgments (page xiii)
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Guide to the Compact Disc Rara! (page xv)
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Introducing Rara (page 1)
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1. Work and Play, Pleasure and Performance (page 25)
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2. Vulgarity and the Politics of the Small Man (page 59)
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3. Mystical Work: Spirits on Parade (page 85)
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4. Rara and "the Jew": Premodern Anti-Judaism in Postmodern Haiti (page 113)
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5. Rara as Popular Army: Hierarchy, Militarism, and Warfare (page 135)
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6. Voices under Domination: Rara and the Politics of Insecurity (page 159)
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7. Rara in New York City: Transnational Popular Culture (page 183)
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Appendix: Chronology of Political Events, 1990-1995, Annotated with Transnational Rara Band Activity (page 209)
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Glossary (page 213)
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Notes (page 217)
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Sources (page 237)
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Index (page 249)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JoR | 84.2 (2004): 336-338 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/421832 |
CS | 31.2 (2003): 164-168 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/25613414 |
Ethnomusicology | 49.1 (2005): 126-128 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/20174357 |
JHS | 8.1 (2002): 175-177 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/41715128 |
LAMR | 26.2 (2005): 356-365 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4121685 |
NWIG | 78.3/2 (2004): 328-331 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/41850338 |
LAMR | 24.1 (2003): 136-139 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3598716 |
JAAR | 73.3 (2005): 937-939 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4139942 |
JRAI | 9.2 (2003): 367-368 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3134663 |
Notes | 59.3 (2003): 626-628 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/901050 |
LARR | 40.3 (2005): 191-201 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3662829 |
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Published: c2002
Publisher: University of California Press
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- 9780520228238 (paper)
- 9780520228221 (hardcover)