Patrick Bellegarde-Smith is Professor of Africology at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is author of Haiti: The Beached Citadel and In the Shadow of Powers: Dantès Bellegarde in Haitian Social Thought, and editor of Fragments of Bone: Neo-African Religions in the New World. He is a houngan asogwe, a priest of Vodou.Claudine Michel is Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is author of Aspects Educatifs et Moraux du Vodou Haitien and co-author of Théories du Développement de l'Enfant: Etudes Comparatives. She edits the Journal of Haitian Studies.

• ContentsIntroductionPatrick Bellegarde-Smith and Claudine Michel1. Vodun and Social Transformation in the African Diasporic Experience: The Concept of Personhood in Haitian Vodun ReligionGuérin C. Montilus2. Shadow-Matter Universes in Haitian and Dagara Ontologies: A Comparative StudyRéginald O. Crosley3. Broken Mirrors: Mythos, Memories, and National HistoryPatrick Bellegarde-Smith4. Of Worlds Seen and Unseen: The Educational Character of Haitian VodouClaudine Michel5. Vodun, Music, and Society in Haiti: Affirmation and IdentityGerdès Fleurant6. Vodoun, Peasant Songs, and Political OrganizingRénald Clérismé7. From the Horses' Mouths: Women's Words/Women's WorldsClaudine Michel, Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, and Marlène Racine-Toussaint8. Rainbow over Water: Art, Vodou Aestheticism, and PhilosophyMarc A. Christophe9. A Reading of the Marasa Concept in Lilas Desquiron's Les Chemins de Loco-MiroirFlorence Bellande-Robertson10. Herbs and Energy: The Holistic Medical System of the Haitian PeopleMax-G. BeauvoirConclusionPatrick Bellegarde-Smith and Claudine MichelAppendix: Table of Haitian LwaBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

Patrick Bellegarde-Smith is Professor of Africology at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is author of Haiti: The Beached Citadel and In the Shadow of Powers: Dantès Bellegarde in Haitian Social Thought, and editor of Fragments of Bone: Neo-African Religions in the New World. He is a houngan asogwe, a priest of Vodou.Claudine Michel is Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is author of Aspects Educatifs et Moraux du Vodou Haitien and co-author of Théories du Développement de l'Enfant: Etudes Comparatives. She edits the Journal of Haitian Studies.

• ContentsIntroductionPatrick Bellegarde-Smith and Claudine Michel1. Vodun and Social Transformation in the African Diasporic Experience: The Concept of Personhood in Haitian Vodun ReligionGuérin C. Montilus2. Shadow-Matter Universes in Haitian and Dagara Ontologies: A Comparative StudyRéginald O. Crosley3. Broken Mirrors: Mythos, Memories, and National HistoryPatrick Bellegarde-Smith4. Of Worlds Seen and Unseen: The Educational Character of Haitian VodouClaudine Michel5. Vodun, Music, and Society in Haiti: Affirmation and IdentityGerdès Fleurant6. Vodoun, Peasant Songs, and Political OrganizingRénald Clérismé7. From the Horses' Mouths: Women's Words/Women's WorldsClaudine Michel, Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, and Marlène Racine-Toussaint8. Rainbow over Water: Art, Vodou Aestheticism, and PhilosophyMarc A. Christophe9. A Reading of the Marasa Concept in Lilas Desquiron's Les Chemins de Loco-MiroirFlorence Bellande-Robertson10. Herbs and Energy: The Holistic Medical System of the Haitian PeopleMax-G. BeauvoirConclusionPatrick Bellegarde-Smith and Claudine MichelAppendix: Table of Haitian LwaBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

Patrick Bellegarde-Smith is Professor of Africology at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is author of Haiti: The Beached Citadel and In the Shadow of Powers: Dantès Bellegarde in Haitian Social Thought, and editor of Fragments of Bone: Neo-African Religions in the New World. He is a houngan asogwe, a priest of Vodou.Claudine Michel is Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is author of Aspects Educatifs et Moraux du Vodou Haitien and co-author of Théories du Développement de l'Enfant: Etudes Comparatives. She edits the Journal of Haitian Studies.

• ContentsIntroductionPatrick Bellegarde-Smith and Claudine Michel1. Vodun and Social Transformation in the African Diasporic Experience: The Concept of Personhood in Haitian Vodun ReligionGuérin C. Montilus2. Shadow-Matter Universes in Haitian and Dagara Ontologies: A Comparative StudyRéginald O. Crosley3. Broken Mirrors: Mythos, Memories, and National HistoryPatrick Bellegarde-Smith4. Of Worlds Seen and Unseen: The Educational Character of Haitian VodouClaudine Michel5. Vodun, Music, and Society in Haiti: Affirmation and IdentityGerdès Fleurant6. Vodoun, Peasant Songs, and Political OrganizingRénald Clérismé7. From the Horses' Mouths: Women's Words/Women's WorldsClaudine Michel, Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, and Marlène Racine-Toussaint8. Rainbow over Water: Art, Vodou Aestheticism, and PhilosophyMarc A. Christophe9. A Reading of the Marasa Concept in Lilas Desquiron's Les Chemins de Loco-MiroirFlorence Bellande-Robertson10. Herbs and Energy: The Holistic Medical System of the Haitian PeopleMax-G. BeauvoirConclusionPatrick Bellegarde-Smith and Claudine MichelAppendix: Table of Haitian LwaBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex