Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn
The History of Haitians
Conclusions
- French Colonization
- Slavery
- Adaptation of Vodou
- Dissolved original myths
- Vodou is more a culture that a religion which is common
- It is not a cult
- Not base around creating or spreading evil, more about eliminating
- Gender Roles
Modern Myths
&
Misconceptions
Ethnography
Karen McCarthy Brown
- Anthropologist
- Brooklyn Immigrant Community V. Rural Haiti
- One family V. Multiple Interviews (3 Years)
- Becoming apart of the family
- Personal Narrative
Vodou as a religion
- Purpose
- Libations
- Spirits
- Prayer
Family
- Biological Family
- Family in Faith
- Community
Joseph Binbin Mauvant & Manman Marasa
Didi
Alphonse Joseph Marie
Medilice Gloria Philomise
Alourdes Chantel Frank
Maggie William Kumar