About this title: This book and accompanying compact disc provide a rare insight in the innovative ways a community of Haitian migrants in South Florida has maintained religious traditions and familial connections. It demonstrates how religion, ritual, and cultural practices affect lives on both sides of the Caribbean, and it debunks myths of exotic and primitive vodou (often spelled "voo doo"), which have long been used against Haitians. As Karen Richman shows, Haitians at home and in migrant settlements make ingenious use of audio and video tapes to extend the boundaries of their ritual spaces and to ...
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Publisher: University Press of Florida
Date published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780813028354ISBN:0813028353
Description: Very Good. With CD! Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: hardcover
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Date published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780813028354ISBN:0813028353
Description: Good in good dust jacket. 357 pages. Includes CD. A few pages have cornercreasing, otherwise good inside. Dustjacket has light edgewear. read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Date published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780813028354ISBN:0813028353
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. almost as issued; hardcover, minor shelf wear; tight and clean; a very nice copy. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 356 p. Contains: Illustrations. New World Diasporas. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: PAP/CDR
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida
Date published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780813033259ISBN:081303325X
Description: New. Using standard ethnographic methods, Richman's work illuminates the connections among social organization, power, production, ritual, and aesthetics. With its transnational perspective, it shows how labor migration has become one of Haiti's chief eco... read more
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Date published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780813028354ISBN:0813028353
Description: Good. 0813028353 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Date published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780813028354ISBN:0813028353
Description: New. 0813028353 Absolutely Brand New. No marks and in pristine condition. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
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