Christian N Vannier
Biographic Data
| ID | 96196 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian N Vannier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian N |
| FAMILY NAME | Vannier |
| SIGNATURE | VANNIER C N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan–Flint |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Intending the Spirits
Early encounters with Africa initiated a European fascination with the “fetish.” Though this term has been extensively problematized, anthropologists have kept the term, reading fetishes as cultural texts and searching to untangle the material assemblages and deep symbols that comprise them. This article contributes to our knowledge of fetishes by applying a practitioner-centric approach to their use and meaning in the matrices of Vodu. First, I …
African Cultural Astronomy
The Legitimation and Professionalization of Ritual Service in South Togo
Indigenous religious organizations in southern Togo represent organized means of professionalizing and legitimating indigenous religious specialists that provide ritual services such as healing to congregations and communities. Drawing upon interviews with religious specialists and observations surrounding these organizations, this article ethnographically details a particular organization whose principal aim is to codify and enforce social sanct…
African Futures and Afrofuturism
Africanist Anthropology Has a Lot to Offer
Conclusion
This book offers an ethnography of the beliefs and practices of Vodu, as they relate to daily life in an ethnic Ewe fishing community on the coast of southern Togo
Sacred Slaves
This article ethnographically documents beliefs and practices surrounding Tchamba vodu among Anlo-Ewe vodu adepts in southern Togo. Mama Tchamba, or Grandmother Slave, is a religious order devoted to the veneration of the spirits of slaves purchased by the ancestors of Tchamba adepts and sold or kept in the community as wives and mothers. This article documents Tchamba vodu through the authors' interviews and observations in the community and sit…
French Primitivism and the Ends of Empire, 1945–1975 by Daniel J.Sherman. Chicago
Damming the Flood
Audit Culture and Grassroots Participation in Rural Haitian Development
When implementing development projects and programs in the global south, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) seek to maximize project success and sustainability through the practical management of risk. In southern rural Haiti, efforts by NGOs and the Haitian state to minimize the corruption and political opportunism that pervade and jeopardize development activities have resulted in the implementation of an "audit culture," in which community-b…
Audit Culture and Grassroots Participation in Rural Haitian Development
When implementing development projects and programs in the global south, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) seek to maximize project success and sustainability through the practical management of risk. In southern rural Haiti, efforts by NGOs and the Haitian state to minimize the corruption and political opportunism that pervade and jeopardize development activities have resulted in the implementation of an "audit culture," in which community-b…
Sacred Slaves
This article ethnographically documents beliefs and practices surrounding Tchamba vodu among Anlo-Ewe vodu adepts in southern Togo. Mama Tchamba, or Grandmother Slave, is a religious order devoted to the veneration of the spirits of slaves purchased by the ancestors of Tchamba adepts and sold or kept in the community as wives and mothers. This article documents Tchamba vodu through the authors' interviews and observations in the community and sit…
Intending the Spirits
Early encounters with Africa initiated a European fascination with the “fetish.” Though this term has been extensively problematized, anthropologists have kept the term, reading fetishes as cultural texts and searching to untangle the material assemblages and deep symbols that comprise them. This article contributes to our knowledge of fetishes by applying a practitioner-centric approach to their use and meaning in the matrices of Vodu. First, I …
African Futures and Afrofuturism
Damming the Flood
Audit Culture and Grassroots Participation in Rural Haitian Development
When implementing development projects and programs in the global south, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) seek to maximize project success and sustainability through the practical management of risk. In southern rural Haiti, efforts by NGOs and the Haitian state to minimize the corruption and political opportunism that pervade and jeopardize development activities have resulted in the implementation of an "audit culture," in which community-b…
French Primitivism and the Ends of Empire, 1945–1975 by Daniel J.Sherman. Chicago
Sacred Slaves
This article ethnographically documents beliefs and practices surrounding Tchamba vodu among Anlo-Ewe vodu adepts in southern Togo. Mama Tchamba, or Grandmother Slave, is a religious order devoted to the veneration of the spirits of slaves purchased by the ancestors of Tchamba adepts and sold or kept in the community as wives and mothers. This article documents Tchamba vodu through the authors' interviews and observations in the community and sit…
Conclusion
This book offers an ethnography of the beliefs and practices of Vodu, as they relate to daily life in an ethnic Ewe fishing community on the coast of southern Togo
African Futures and Afrofuturism
Africanist Anthropology Has a Lot to Offer
African Cultural Astronomy
The Legitimation and Professionalization of Ritual Service in South Togo
Indigenous religious organizations in southern Togo represent organized means of professionalizing and legitimating indigenous religious specialists that provide ritual services such as healing to congregations and communities. Drawing upon interviews with religious specialists and observations surrounding these organizations, this article ethnographically details a particular organization whose principal aim is to codify and enforce social sanct…
Intending the Spirits
Early encounters with Africa initiated a European fascination with the “fetish.” Though this term has been extensively problematized, anthropologists have kept the term, reading fetishes as cultural texts and searching to untangle the material assemblages and deep symbols that comprise them. This article contributes to our knowledge of fetishes by applying a practitioner-centric approach to their use and meaning in the matrices of Vodu. First, I …
Sociology (6 works) · Citation (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · History (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · African Studies and Ethnography (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Library science (3 works) · Political science (3 works)