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.
- ISBN10 0520228227
- ISBN13 9780520228221
- Publish Date 1 May 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 December 2007
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 277
- Language English