PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Bearing rum, flowers and candles, thousands of voodoo followers flocked to Haiti's largest cemetery on Wednesday to rouse sacred spirits and remember lost relatives in raucous ...
Practitioners of Vodou (or voodoo) gathered in Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Prospect Park Saturday evening to celebrate the anniversary of Bwa Kayiman, a ceremony credited with launching Haiti’s 1791 slave revolt ...
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 ...
Three senators from Haiti pause in reflection in front of a statue of their country's independence hero Toussaint Louverture in Allada, southern Benin, where he had his roots. The West African and ...
1. Introduction -- 2. Vodun as a Religious System and Way of Life -- 3. The Music of the Rada Rite -- 4. Drums, Drummers, and Oungenikon in Haitian Rada -- 5. The Music of the Rada Battery -- 6. The ...