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Author Richman, Karen E.

Title Migration and vodou / Karen E. Richman.

Imprint Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2005.

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.896 R532M    Check Shelf
Description xxi, 356 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm + 1 CD (4 3/4 in.).
Series New World diasporas
New World diasporas series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-330) and index.
Contents The pwen of transnational Haitian migration -- Migrants, remittances, and development -- Ti Rivyè : between home and over there -- Peasants and hidden proletarians in Léogane -- Discovering the African traditions -- The dialectic of Guinea and magic -- Guarantying migrants in the core -- They will remember me in the house : aesthetics of contest and persuasion on cassette letters -- The rebellion of the pwen.
Summary Audio disc includes cassette letters to and from Little Caterpillar (Pierre Dioguy) and others.
Subject Haitians -- United States -- Migrations.
Haitians -- United States -- Social life and customs.
Immigrants -- United States.
Migrant labor -- United States.
Vodou -- United States.
United States -- Social life and customs.
United States -- Religious life and customs.
Haitians -- Migrations. (OCoLC)fst02005984
Haitians -- Social life and customs. (OCoLC)fst00950487
Immigrants. (OCoLC)fst00967712
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Migrant labor. (OCoLC)fst01020711
Vodou. (OCoLC)fst01801724
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Voodoo. (NL-LeOCL)078949017
Haïtianen. (NL-LeOCL)078528585
Immigrants. (NL-LeOCL)078542537
United States. (NL-LeOCL)078939836
Voodoo -- Haiti.
Genre/Form CD-ROMs.
ISBN 0813028353 (alk. paper)
9780813028354 (alk. paper)
9780813033259 (pbk.)
081303325X (pbk.)
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