Mama Lola. Voodoo in Brooklyn.

Autor*innen

• Karen McCarthy Brown

Parameter

• 479 Seiten
• 17 Lesestunden

• Ethnographie
• Historisches Thema
• Religiöse Themen
• Sachliteratur
• Spiritualität

Mehr zum Buch

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.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Einband: Hardcover