Vodun : : Secrecy and the Search for Divine Power / / Timothy R. Landry.
Tourists to Ouidah, a city on the coast of the Republic of Bénin, in West Africa, typically visit a few well-known sites of significance to the Vodún religion—the Python Temple, where Dangbé, the python spirit, is worshipped, and King Kpasse's sacred forest, which is the seat of the Vodún deity...
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Landry, Timothy R., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Vodun : Secrecy and the Search for Divine Power / Timothy R. Landry. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018] ©2019 1 online resource (216 p.) : 12 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Contemporary Ethnography Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- A NOTE ON ORTHOGRAPHY AND STYLE -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Touring the Forbidden -- CHAPTER 2. Receiving the Forest -- CHAPTER 3. Secrecy, Objects, and Expanding Markets -- CHAPTER 4. Belief, Efficacy, and Transnationalism -- CHAPTER 5. Global Vodún, Diversity, and Looking Ahead -- Epilogue: Reflections on Belief and Apprenticeship -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Tourists to Ouidah, a city on the coast of the Republic of Bénin, in West Africa, typically visit a few well-known sites of significance to the Vodún religion—the Python Temple, where Dangbé, the python spirit, is worshipped, and King Kpasse's sacred forest, which is the seat of the Vodún deity known as Lokò. However, other, less familiar places, such as the palace of the so-called supreme chief of Vodún in Bénin, are also rising in popularity as tourists become increasingly adventurous and as more Vodún priests and temples make themselves available to foreigners in the hopes of earning extra money.Timothy R. Landry examines the connections between local Vodún priests and spiritual seekers who travel to Bénin—some for the snapshot, others for full-fledged initiation into the religion. He argues that the ways in which the Vodún priests and tourists negotiate the transfer of confidential, sacred knowledge create its value. The more secrecy that surrounds Vodún ritual practice and material culture, the more authentic, coveted, and, consequently, expensive that knowledge becomes. Landry writes as anthropologist and initiate, having participated in hundreds of Vodún ceremonies, rituals, and festivals.Examining the role of money, the incarnation of deities, the limits of adaptation for the transnational community, and the belief in spirits, sorcery, and witchcraft, Vodún ponders the ethical implications of producing and consuming culture by local and international agents. Highlighting the ways in which racialization, power, and the legacy of colonialism affect the procurement and transmission of secret knowledge in West Africa and beyond, Landry demonstrates how, paradoxically, secrecy is critically important to Vodún's global expansion. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2021) Control (Psychology) Religious aspects Vodou. Ethnology Benin. Secrecy Religious aspects Vodou. Tourism Religious aspects. Tourism Benin History 21st century. Vodou Economic aspects Benin History 21st century. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. bisacsh Anthropology. Folklore. Linguistics. Religion. Religious Studies. Sociology. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020 9783110737769 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English 9783110604252 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 9783110603255 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Economics and Social Sciences 2018 English 9783110604016 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Social Sciences 2018 9783110603231 ZDB-23-DSW Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Frontlist Package 2019 9783110652055 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812295634 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812295634 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812295634.jpg |
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