12542: NEW BOOK: Rara! (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Laura Driussi <laura.driussi@ucpress.edu>


The University of California Press is pleased to announce the publication of:

Rara! Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and Its Diaspora

by Elizabeth McAlister, Assistant Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University

"A smart and thoughtful book by a very talented ethnographer. Anyone interested in Haiti will appreciate the work of Elizabeth McAlister."-Karen Brown, author of _Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn_

Rara is a vibrant annual street festival in Haiti, when followers of the Afro-Creole religion called Vodou march loudly into public space to take an active role in politics. Working deftly with highly original ethnographic material, Elizabeth McAlister shows how Rara bands harness the power of Vodou spirits and the recently dead to broadcast coded points of view with historical, gendered, and transnational dimensions.  The book includes a 24-track CD.

Full information about the book, including a sample track from the CD and the table of contents, is available at the following web address: http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9291.html

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