How Houngans Use the Light from Distant Stars

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23407828
AutoresLegrace Benson (0000-0002-7663-8778, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Páginas155-179
Fecha de publicación2006-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaVodou in Haitian Life and Culture (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9780312376208_10
OpenAlexW2500860881
ISBN9780312376208
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas11

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