Mama Lola - A vodou priestess in Brooklyn

(Karen McCarthy Brown)

Karen McCarthy Brown's Mama Lola challenges stereotypes of Vodou by offering an intimate portrait of African-based religion in everyday life. She explores the importance of women's religious practices along with related themes of family and of social change. Weaving several ofher own voices - analytic, descriptive and personal - with the voices of her subjects in alternate chapters of traditional ethnography and ethnographic fiction, Brown presents herself as a character in Mama Lola's world and allows the reader to evaluate her interactions there. Brown's work is an experiment in ethnography as a social art form rooted in human relationships. A new preface, epilogue, bibliography and a collection of family photographs tell the story of the effect of the book's publication on Mama Lola's life.

Paperback, 429 pag.,geïllustreerd

Uitg. Regents of the University of California, 2001

ISBN 9780520224759

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