On Looking at a Vodou Altar
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9024732 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donald J Cosentino (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 67 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Arts (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9933 • E-ISSN: 1937-2108 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3337370 |
| OpenAlex | W1964826674 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
want to change your view of altars by telling you a few things about them in Haitian Vodou. Altars happen. Altars must be fed. Altars must be awakened. Altars wax and wane in potency. Altars breathe. Altars tell stories. Altars reveal the state of being of individuals and communities. Altars can be in a bottle, or under your skin, or buried in your yard. They can be hung in the rafters of a house or the limbs of a tree, or they can be placed on the ground, on a table, or at the foot of a tree. A grave can even be an altar. Altars are places where the living and the dead, the human and the divine, meet. Altars are places where healing happens. To understand what I mean by healing, we need a few basic terms
Aesthetics · Altar · Art · Art history · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2021 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |