Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States. Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha, Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha

Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States

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ISBN: 9781469674018 | 248 pages | 7 Mb

Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States
Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha, Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha
Page: 248
Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
ISBN: 9781469674018
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press

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In 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. She engaged particularly with a Haitian practitioner and former fashion designer, Manbo Maude, who presided over Vodou temples in Mattapan, Massachusetts, and Jacmel, Haiti. With vivid description and nuanced analysis, Nwokocha shows how Manbo Maude's use of dress and her production of ritual garments are key to serving Black gods and illuminate a larger transnational economy of fashion and spiritual exchange. This innovative book centers on fashion and other forms of self-presentation, yet it draws together many strands of thought and practice, showing how religion is a multisensorial experience of engagement with what the gods want and demand from worshippers. Nwokocha's ethnographic work will challenge and enrich readers' understandings not only of Vodou and its place in Black religious experience but also of religion's entanglements with gender and sexuality, race, and the material and spiritual realms.

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