Karen Richman

Biographic Data

ID3617088
NAMEKaren Richman
GIVEN NAMESKaren
FAMILY NAMERichman
SIGNATURERICHMAN K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Notre Dame
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS36
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Rebuilding after disaster in Haiti

    Open AccessTracy Kijewski-Correa, William Kakenmaster et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2026References: 9

    Expectations of financial support from neither the state/NGOs nor diaspora remittances promote more resilient rebuilding. • Expectations of local community support promote more resilient rebuilding, as does diversification of sources of support. • The positive effects of expecting local community and diversified support were observed after earthquakes, not hurricanes. • No one-size-fits-all policy exists for building back better.Support programs …

  • The Value of Informal Support for Black and White Workers and Retirees

    Open AccessKaren Richman, Joelle Saad-Lessler et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Black Political…2025References: 1

    Analysis of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) data reveals that Black workers are more likely than Whites to receive and provide informal support to family and friends, and most of that support takes the form of offers of rent-free housing. The value of money and in-kind housing received by White workers potentially bumped their total wealth accumulations by 7%, while among Black workers, wealth accumulations were potentially …

  • Voodoo/ Vodou

    Open AccessKaren RichmanOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2018

    The term “voodoo” has been used to symbolize the quintessential other; this stereotype does not represent the religion of ordinary Haitians. Their vernacular religion is a heterogeneous system organized around descent groups that trace their identities to resistance to plantation slavery, economic freedom, and ownership of land. Members of ritual units include the living, the ancestors, and their inherited Ginen (African) spirits, or lwa , whose …

  • Religion at the Epicenter

    Karen RichmanCHAPTERThe Idea Of Haiti Rethinking…2013

    Karen Richman’s work centers religion and faith in post-earthquake Haiti and establishes that in spite of “speculative claims” about vodou’s impact upon the nation and the experiences of Haitians during this complex and arduous time, there remains a void in empirical scholarship regarding the “religious implications” of Haiti’s monumental seismic event. In what ways and to what extent have Haitian people’s faith shifted due to the tremors on Janu…

  • The Vodou State and the Protestant Nation

    Open AccessKaren RichmanCHAPTERObeah and Other Powers2012

  • Religion at the Epicenter

    Open AccessKaren RichmanARTICLEStudies in Religion/Sciences…2012Cited by: 8References: 16

    The earthquake of 12 January 2010 devastated Léogâne, crumbling buildings and crushing bodies unable to dodge unearthly torrents of concrete blocks and cloudbursts of white dust. Whereas an assessment of the material and biological impacts of the seismic tremors may be undertaken without prior, personal familiarity with the subjects of concern, understanding the effects of the earthquake on local religious faith and practice requires knowledge of…

  • Introduction to Special Issue

    Open AccessT Rey, Karen RichmanARTICLEStudies in Religion/Sciences…2012

  • The Somatics of Syncretism

    Open AccessT Rey, Karen RichmanARTICLEStudies in Religion/Sciences…2010Cited by: 8References: 42

    The convergence of African religion and Christianity in the Atlantic world has inspired some of the most significant and most analyzed examples of syncretism in the study of religion. Scholarly discussions of these phenomena, however, tend to portray religions like Vodou in Haiti and Candomblé in Brazil as mergers of various Euro-Christian and ''traditional'' African elements that chiefly result from processes of cognitive ideation, thereby blurr…

  • Congregating by cassette

    Open AccessKaren Richman, T ReyARTICLEInternational Journal of Cultural…2009Cited by: 1References: 2

    A single communications device has transformed interactions between members of widely dispersed transnational Haitian religious communities: the audiocassette recorder. Messages, hymns and prayers taped on them crisscross the sea between Haiti and its diaspora, engaging distantly separated co-religionists in sporadically sequenced, yet effectively intimate conversations and rituals. For both Vodouist and Catholic religious congregations, tape rec…

  • Peasants, Migrants And The Discovery Of African Traditions

    Karen E Richman, Karen RichmanCHAPTERAfricas of the Americas2008

  • A more powerful sorcerer

    Open AccessKaren E Richman, Karen RichmanARTICLENew West Indian Guide / Nieuwe…2008Cited by: 7References: 8

    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…

  • Are They Mad? Nation and Narration in Tous les hommes sont fous

    Marlene L Daut, Marlene Daut et al.ARTICLESmall Axe A Caribbean Journal of…2008

    All Men Are Mad, by Philippe Thoby-Marcelin and Pierre Marcelin, is set during the antisuperstition campaign in Haiti, which was led by the French Catholic Church during the 1940s. The Marcelin brothers' novel was not only a devastating critique of religious persecution but also a pithy commentary on the structure of the nation-state, meaning all nation-states, not only the polity of Haiti. The text was consequently misread by literary critics wh…

  • Are They Mad? Nation and Narration inTous les hommes sont fous

    Marlene L Daut, Marlene Daut et al.ARTICLESmall Axe A Caribbean Journal of…2008

  • Innocent Imitations? Authenticity and Mimesis in Haitian Vodou Art, Tourism, and Anthropology

    Karen E Richman, Karen RichmanARTICLEEthnohistory2008Cited by: 7References: 9

    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…

  • Peasants, Migrants and the Discovery of African Traditions

    Karen RichmanARTICLEJournal of Religion in Africa2007Cited by: 2

    Observers of Haitian popular religion have defined Vodou as the authentic African religion of Haitian peasants. In fact, Vodou's congregational forms and practices evolved in and around Port-au-Prince during the twentieth century as the local peasantry was being coerced into wage labor. This paper deals with the incorporation of these ritual innovations in a particular hamlet in Léogane. The agents of ritual diffusion appear to have been not only…

  • Dancing Wisdom

    Open AccessKaren E Richman, Karen RichmanARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…2007

  • The Birth of Girl into Woman and Edie Turner, an Anthropologist of a Different Kind

    Open AccessKaren E Richman, Karen RichmanARTICLEAnthropology & Humanism2003Cited by: 1References: 6

    Edith Turner. Girl into Woman, 1985. Anthropology and Humanism 10(2):27-32

  • Miami Money and the Home Gal

    Open AccessKaren E Richman, Karen RichmanARTICLEAnthropology & Humanism2002

    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…

  • High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy

    Open AccessKaren RichmanREVIEWAmerican Ethnologist2001

    High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean. Carla Freeman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. ix + 334 pp., tables, maps, figures, notes, bibliography, index

  • Pride against Prejudice

    Karen RichmanREVIEWInternational Migration Review2000

    1.Coming to Know Haitians in the United States. 2.Family Across the Seas. 3.Struggling for Survival and Success. 4.Just Comes and Cover-Ups: Haitians in High School. 5.Haitian Culture: Religion, Cuisine, Music and Art. 6.The Politics of Coming to America: Refugees or Immigrants? 7.Will Pride or Prejudice Prevail

  • Society for Humanistic Anthropology

    Open AccessKaren RichmanARTICLEAnthropology News1998

  • Society for Humanistic Anthropology

    Open AccessKaren RichmanARTICLEAnthropology News1998

  • Society for Humanistic Anthropology

    Open AccessKaren RichmanARTICLEAnthropology News1997

  • Society for Humanistic Anthropology

    Open AccessKaren RichmanARTICLEAnthropology News1997

  • Society for Humanistic Anthropology

    Open AccessKaren RichmanARTICLEAnthropology News1997