Karen E Richman
Biographic Data
| ID | 160468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen E Richman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen E |
| FAMILY NAME | Richman |
| SIGNATURE | RICHMAN K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1. [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Peasants, Migrants And The Discovery Of African Traditions
A more powerful sorcerer
Focusses on how since the arrival of Haitians in South Florida since 1979 many of these increasingly joined and converted to Haitian evangelical Protestant churches, and came to disavow the combined Catholic and Vodou beliefs they adhered to. Author points out how this echoes trends in Haiti since the 1970s of increased conversions to evangelical Protestantism, with these localized/Haitianized Protestant churches later also moving to Florida. She…
Innocent Imitations? Authenticity and Mimesis in Haitian Vodou Art, Tourism, and Anthropology
Mimesis was essential to the birth of Haitian Vodou art. During the 1940s, worker-artists in urban Haiti imitated foreign entrepreneurs' imitations of their imagined essence. Yet the role of mimetic interplay in folk-art reproduction was concealed by loftier claims of authenticity. This essay reports on one minor instance of this contradiction as a means of engaging modes of seeing, representing, and consuming the exotic folk essence of the Haiti…
Dancing Wisdom
The Birth of Girl into Woman and Edie Turner, an Anthropologist of a Different Kind
Edith Turner. Girl into Woman, 1985. Anthropology and Humanism 10(2):27-32
Miami Money and the Home Gal
Since the massive labor migrations of young adults from Haiti to North America and beyond that began more than two decades ago, protracted separation of husbands from wives and parents from children has caused severe hardship to the women left behind, especially to the mothers of young children. They suffer under the severity of the cultural commitment to patriarchy, yet they require for their survival their own economic autonomy. This article sh…
A more powerful sorcerer
Focusses on how since the arrival of Haitians in South Florida since 1979 many of these increasingly joined and converted to Haitian evangelical Protestant churches, and came to disavow the combined Catholic and Vodou beliefs they adhered to. Author points out how this echoes trends in Haiti since the 1970s of increased conversions to evangelical Protestantism, with these localized/Haitianized Protestant churches later also moving to Florida. She…
Innocent Imitations? Authenticity and Mimesis in Haitian Vodou Art, Tourism, and Anthropology
Mimesis was essential to the birth of Haitian Vodou art. During the 1940s, worker-artists in urban Haiti imitated foreign entrepreneurs' imitations of their imagined essence. Yet the role of mimetic interplay in folk-art reproduction was concealed by loftier claims of authenticity. This essay reports on one minor instance of this contradiction as a means of engaging modes of seeing, representing, and consuming the exotic folk essence of the Haiti…
The Birth of Girl into Woman and Edie Turner, an Anthropologist of a Different Kind
Edith Turner. Girl into Woman, 1985. Anthropology and Humanism 10(2):27-32
Miami Money and the Home Gal
Since the massive labor migrations of young adults from Haiti to North America and beyond that began more than two decades ago, protracted separation of husbands from wives and parents from children has caused severe hardship to the women left behind, especially to the mothers of young children. They suffer under the severity of the cultural commitment to patriarchy, yet they require for their survival their own economic autonomy. This article sh…
The Birth of Girl into Woman and Edie Turner, an Anthropologist of a Different Kind
Edith Turner. Girl into Woman, 1985. Anthropology and Humanism 10(2):27-32
Dancing Wisdom
Peasants, Migrants And The Discovery Of African Traditions
A more powerful sorcerer
Focusses on how since the arrival of Haitians in South Florida since 1979 many of these increasingly joined and converted to Haitian evangelical Protestant churches, and came to disavow the combined Catholic and Vodou beliefs they adhered to. Author points out how this echoes trends in Haiti since the 1970s of increased conversions to evangelical Protestantism, with these localized/Haitianized Protestant churches later also moving to Florida. She…
Innocent Imitations? Authenticity and Mimesis in Haitian Vodou Art, Tourism, and Anthropology
Mimesis was essential to the birth of Haitian Vodou art. During the 1940s, worker-artists in urban Haiti imitated foreign entrepreneurs' imitations of their imagined essence. Yet the role of mimetic interplay in folk-art reproduction was concealed by loftier claims of authenticity. This essay reports on one minor instance of this contradiction as a means of engaging modes of seeing, representing, and consuming the exotic folk essence of the Haiti…
Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · Migration, Identity, and Health (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works)