Mimerose Beaubrun

Nan Domi: An Initiate's Journey Into Haitian Vodou

Übersetzer: Walker, D. J. / Mitwirkender: Bell, Madison Smartt

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Produktbeschreibung

The first and only insider's account of Vodou’s private, mystical, interior practice, a compelling story of initiation and transformation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: City Lights Books
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 141mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 359g
• ISBN-13: 9780872865747
• ISBN-10: 0872865746
• Artikelnr.: 36630247

Autorenporträt

Mimerose Beaubron was born in Ouanaminthe, in northwest Haiti. A social and cultural anthropologist, she is also the co-founder and principal singer of the world music band, Boukmans Ekperyans. In 2002 she, along with the group, was nominated as a Peace and Goodwill ambassador by the United Nations. Madison Smartt Bell is an American writer, known for his trilogy of novels about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution, published 1995-2004. Finalist for the National Book Award and recipient of a PEN/Faulkner award, Bell was raised in Nashville and lived in New York and London before settling in Baltimore, Maryland.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Acknowledgements Preface, by Madison Smartt Bell Prologue Chapter 1: Teaching of Perception with Aunt Tansia? Chapter 2: Placement of the Head Chapter 3: Loa or a State of Lucid Dreaming
Chapter 4 The Double and the Dream Body Chapter 5: The Purification Chapter 6: Manipulating the Double Chapter 7: Strolling in the Swarm of Stars Chapter 8: Knowledgeable in Mystical Consciousness Chapter 9: The Eye of the Water Witness 1 Witness 2 Chapter 10: Establishing a Link for Communication Chapter 11: Handling One
s Gift Dream, tale, history, myth, legend? Chapter 12: The Importance of Je Chapter 13: I Remember Chapter 14: You Must Be Perspicacious In Order to See or There are Conditions for Seeing Chapter 15: Cold Eyes or the Fear of the Unknown Chapter 16: Eyes Show Fear Relative to the Task or Indecision Chapter 17: Watch your Feet or Constant Attention Chapterr 18: Witness of the nannan-rèv
Witness of the Dream Body? Chapter 19: The Farewell Ceremony Epilogue Lexicon