TY  - BOOK
N2  - "Karen McCarthy Brown's classic book shatters stereotypes of Vodou by offering an intimate portrait of African-based religion in everyday life. She explores the importance of women's religious practices along with related themes of family and of social change. Weaving several of her own voices--analytic, descriptive, and personal--with the voices of her subjects in alternate chapters of traditional ethnography and ethnographic fiction, Brown presents herself as a character in Mama Lola's world and allows the reader to evaluate her interactions there. Startlingly original, Brown's work endures as an important experiment in ethnography as a social art form rooted in human relationships. A new preface, epilogue, bibliography, and a collection of family photographs tell the story of the effect of the book's publication on Mama Lola's life."--Publisher's description.
AB  - "Karen McCarthy Brown's classic book shatters stereotypes of Vodou by offering an intimate portrait of African-based religion in everyday life. She explores the importance of women's religious practices along with related themes of family and of social change. Weaving several of her own voices--analytic, descriptive, and personal--with the voices of her subjects in alternate chapters of traditional ethnography and ethnographic fiction, Brown presents herself as a character in Mama Lola's world and allows the reader to evaluate her interactions there. Startlingly original, Brown's work endures as an important experiment in ethnography as a social art form rooted in human relationships. A new preface, epilogue, bibliography, and a collection of family photographs tell the story of the effect of the book's publication on Mama Lola's life."--Publisher's description.
T1  - Mama Lola :a Vodou priestess in Brooklyn /
DA  - c2001.
CY  - Berkeley :
AU  - Brown, Karen McCarthy.
ET  - Updated and expanded ed.
VL  - 4
CN  - BL2490.K68
CN  - BL2490.K68
PB  - University of California Press,
PP  - Berkeley :
PY  - c2001.
N1  - Includes glossary.
ID  - 453556
KW  - Mambos (Vodou)
KW  - Vodou
SN  - 9780520224758 (pbk. : alk. paper)
SN  - 0520224752 (pbk. : alk. paper)
TI  - Mama Lola :a Vodou priestess in Brooklyn /
ER  -