Timothy R. Landry

Vodun

Secrecy and the Search for Divine Power

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Highlighting the ways in which racialization, power, and the legacy of colonialism affect the procurement and transmission of secret knowledge in West Africa and beyond, Landry demonstrates how, paradoxically, secrecy is critically important to Vodun's global expansion.

Produktdetails

• Contemporary Ethnography
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 163mm x 240mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9780812250749
• ISBN-10: 0812250745
• Artikelnr.: 53930116

Autorenporträt

Timothy R. Landry teaches anthropology and religious studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

Inhaltsangabe

A Note on Orthography and Style
Introduction
Chapter 1. Touring the Forbidden
Chapter 2. Receiving the Forest
Chapter 3. Secrecy, Objects, and Expanding Markets
Chapter 4. Belief, Efficacy, and Transnationalism
Chapter 5. Global Vodún, Diversity, and Looking Ahead
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments