How Houngans Use the Light from Distant Stars

Bibliographic Data

ID23407828
AuthorsLegrace Benson (0000-0002-7663-8778, corresponding author)
Year2006
Pages155-179
Publication date2006-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueVodou in Haitian Life and Culture (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9780312376208_10
OpenAlexW2500860881
ISBN9780312376208
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited11

Qur’an and Bible traveled on the ships bound from Africa to St.-Domingue. So did tracts of the European Enlightenment; copies of the Declaration of the Rights of Man ; abolitionist letters from the Abbot Grégoire; Christian catechisms; grimoires full of instructions for magic rituals to insure love, good fortune, and victory. This print material was spare and simple compared to the complex intellectual environment carried around the minds of the people on board. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Art · Astronomy · Declaration · Enlightenment · Humanities · Literature · MAGIC (telescope) · Political science · Spare part · Spare time · Theology · Victory · Engineering · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Historical and Architectural Studies · Historical Astronomy and Related Studies · History · Law · Philosophy