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Rara!: vodou, power, and performance in Haiti and its diaspora

Elizabeth A McAlister c2002 © University of California Press
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  • 9780520228238 (paper)
  • 9780520228221 (hardcover)
  • 9780520926745 (ebook)
Subject
  • Religion
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  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page xi)
  • Acknowledgments (page xiii)
  • Guide to the Compact Disc Rara! (page xv)
  • Introducing Rara (page 1)
  • 1. Work and Play, Pleasure and Performance (page 25)
  • 2. Vulgarity and the Politics of the Small Man (page 59)
  • 3. Mystical Work: Spirits on Parade (page 85)
  • 4. Rara and "the Jew": Premodern Anti-Judaism in Postmodern Haiti (page 113)
  • 5. Rara as Popular Army: Hierarchy, Militarism, and Warfare (page 135)
  • 6. Voices under Domination: Rara and the Politics of Insecurity (page 159)
  • 7. Rara in New York City: Transnational Popular Culture (page 183)
  • Appendix: Chronology of Political Events, 1990-1995, Annotated with Transnational Rara Band Activity (page 209)
  • Glossary (page 213)
  • Notes (page 217)
  • Sources (page 237)
  • Index (page 249)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
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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