By Benjamin Hebblethwaite,Joanne Bartley
ISBN-10: 1439906017
ISBN-13: 9781439906019
ISBN-10: 1439906025
ISBN-13: 9781439906026
Vodou songs represent the residing reminiscence of Haitian Vodou groups, and track texts are key components to figuring out Haitian tradition. Vodou songs shape a profound spiritual and cultural history that traverses the prior and refreshes the current. providing a distinctive learn software on Vodou and its cultural roots in Haiti and pre-Haitian regions, Vodou Songs in Haitian Creole and English provides a considerable collection of difficult to discover or unpublished sacred Vodou songs in a side-by-side bilingual format.
Esteemed student Benjamin Hebblethwaite introduces the language, mythology, philosophy, origins, and tradition of Vodou via a number of chapters of resource songs plus separate analytical chapters. He courses readers via songs, chants, poems, magical formulae, invocations, prayers, old texts and interviews, in addition to Haitian Creole grammar and unique sacred literature. An in-depth dictionary of key Vodou phrases and ideas can be provided.
This corpus of songs and the study approximately them supply an important realizing of the that means of Vodou faith, language, and culture.
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