Vodou en Vogue Jack Wertheimer Grounded in an ethnographic approach

Grounded in an ethnographic approach to Black women's experiences

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This is a whimsical story about a friend who wants to be the center of attention but tries in all of the wrong ways

This volume is part of a new wave of scholarship that expands the focus of international relations beyond great powers and recognizes the increasing agency that other states have gained in the twenty-first-century world order

including the concept of self

Vodou en Vogue Jack Wertheimer Grounded in an ethnographic approachIn Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reveals in this richly textured book, that connection is manifest in the dynamic relationship between public religious ceremonies, material aesthetics, bodily adornment, and spirit possession. Nwokocha spent more than a decade observing Vodou ceremonies from Montreal and New York to Miami and Port au Prince.