Vodun in coastal Bénin :
Rush, Dana, 1966-
Vodun in coastal Bénin : unfinished, open-ended, global / Dana Rush. - Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2013. - xvii, 190 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-182) and index.
Diasporas and aesthetics -- Vodun's rhizome -- Foreign presence in local Vodun -- "India," chromolithographs, and Vodun -- Vodun of slave remembrance -- Contemporary Vodun art.
"Introduces audiences to the arts and aesthetics of Vodun, a religious system whose existence is misunderstood, if known at all. Presents fieldwork in West Africa and comparative work in Brazil, Cuba, and Haiti. Sheds light on abstract to concrete dimensions of Vodun"--
9780826519078 (cloth edition : alk. paper) 0826519075 (cloth edition : alk. paper) 0826519083 (pbk. edition : alk. paper) 9780826519085 (pbk. edition : alk. paper)
2012035737
Vodou--Benin.
Art, Fon--Benin.
Art, Yoruba--Benin.
Fon (African people)--Religion.
Yoruba (African people)--Religion.
BL2470.D3 / R87 2013
299.675096683
Vodun in coastal Bénin : unfinished, open-ended, global / Dana Rush. - Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2013. - xvii, 190 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-182) and index.
Diasporas and aesthetics -- Vodun's rhizome -- Foreign presence in local Vodun -- "India," chromolithographs, and Vodun -- Vodun of slave remembrance -- Contemporary Vodun art.
"Introduces audiences to the arts and aesthetics of Vodun, a religious system whose existence is misunderstood, if known at all. Presents fieldwork in West Africa and comparative work in Brazil, Cuba, and Haiti. Sheds light on abstract to concrete dimensions of Vodun"--
9780826519078 (cloth edition : alk. paper) 0826519075 (cloth edition : alk. paper) 0826519083 (pbk. edition : alk. paper) 9780826519085 (pbk. edition : alk. paper)
2012035737
Vodou--Benin.
Art, Fon--Benin.
Art, Yoruba--Benin.
Fon (African people)--Religion.
Yoruba (African people)--Religion.
BL2470.D3 / R87 2013
299.675096683