Mama Lola : a Vodou priestess in Brooklyn / Karen McCarthy Brown.

Mama Lola : a Vodou priestess in Brooklyn / Karen McCarthy Brown.

Updated and expanded edition.

9780520224759 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520224752 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001]

©2001

English

xviii, 429 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.

BL2490.K68 B76 2001

73.58

299/.675/092

"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.

Includes glossary.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-414) and index.

Also available electronically via World Wide Web as an ACLS humanities e-book. Access restricted to subscribers.

Comparative studies in religion and society.

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