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Mama Lola A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn This item Mama Lola A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn Comparative Studies in Religion and Society by Karen McCarthy Brown Paperback 2695 In Stock Ships from and sold by Mama Lola A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn Comparative Drawing on a decadelong friendship with Mama Lola a Vodou priestess Karen McCarthy Brown tells tales spanning five generations of Vodou healers in Mama Lolas family beginning with an African ancestor and ending with Mama Lolas daughter Maggie a recent initiate and the designated heir to her Brooklynbased healing practice Mama Lola A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn Comparative Mama Lola known to family and friends as Alourdes is a Mambo an initiated priestess of Voudou who earns a modest living by serving her immigrant countrymen in America as a traditional healer and by conducting Haitian Voudou rites in her Brooklyn home Mama Lola A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn Google Books Mama Lola A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn She explores the importance of womens religious practices along with related themes of family and of social change Weaving several of her own voicesanalytic descriptive and personalwith the voices of her subjects in alternate chapters of traditional ethnography and ethnographic fiction Mama Lola A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn Comparative Mama Lola A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn Comparative Studies in Religion and Society by Karen McCarthy Brown Click here for the lowest price Hardcover 9780520070738 0520070739 Mama Lola A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn Thriftbooks Mama Lola is an intimate spiritual biography of a Vodou priestess and her family Haitian Vodou is not only one of the most misunderstood religions in the world it is also one of the most maligned In New York City where Mama Lola lives prejudice against Vodou practitioners is common
