PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The Vodou faithful sing, their voices rising above the gunfire erupting miles away as frantic drumbeats drown out their troubles. They pause to swig rum out of small brown ...
A person touches a monument to Baron Samedi and Gede during a ceremony honoring the Haitian Vodou spirit at the National Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Nov. 1 2021 Ursula von der Leyen’s ...
In Haiti, locals took to the streets recently to protest a new governmental decree that threatens the practice of the Vodou religion. Gina Athena Ulysse, a contributor at the Huffington Post, writes ...
Deciphering diaspora dances: their origin nations and belief systems -- Body knowledge at the crossroads -- Days of remembrance -- Dances of memory -- Praise dance and liturgical orders -- Informal ...
Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Patrick Bellegarde-Smith and Claudine Michel -- 1: Vodun and social transformation in the African diasporic experience: the concept of personhood in Haitian Vodun ...