Rara!: Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora

Elizabeth McAlister

Published by University of California Press 2002

Rara!

Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora

Elizabeth McAlister

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520926745

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Rara is a vibrant annual street festival in Haiti, when followers of the Afro-Creole religion called Vodou march loudly into public space to take an active role in politics. Working deftly with highly original ethnographic material, Elizabeth McAlister shows how Rara bands harness the power of Vodou spirits and the recently dead to broadcast coded points of view with historical, gendered, and transnational dimensions.

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McAlister Elizabeth :

Elizabeth McAlister is Professor of Religion and African American studies at Wesleyan University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Guide To The Compact Disc Rara! Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Introducing Rara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Work And Play, Pleasure And Performance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2. Vulgarity And The Politics Of The Small Man Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
3. Mystical Work: Spirits On Parade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
4. Rara And “The Jew”: Premodern Anti- Judaism In Postmodern Haiti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
5. Rara As Popular Army: Hierarchy, Militarism, And Warfare Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
6. Voices Under Domination: Rara And The Politics Of Insecurity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
7. Rara In Newy Ork City: Transnational Popular Culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Appendix: Chronology Of Political Events,1990–1995, Annotated With Transnational Rara Band Activity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 277

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Published: May 1, 2002
ISBN: 9780520926745