by ElizabethMcalister (Author)
Rara is an annual street festival in Haiti, when followers of Vodou march into public space to take an active role in politics. Elizabeth McAlister shows how Rara bands harness the power of Vodou spirits to broadcast coded points of view with historical, gendered and transnational dimensions.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 277
Edition: Pap/Com
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 17 Apr 2002
ISBN 10: 0520228235
ISBN 13: 9780520228238