Voodoo and power : [electronic resource] the politics of religion in New Orleans, 1881-1940 / Kodi A. Roberts.

Louisiana paperback edition.

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2015.

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"The racialized and exoticized cult of Voodoo occupies a central place in the popular image of the Crescent City. But as Kodi A. Roberts argues in Voodoo and Power, the religion was not a monolithic tradition handed down from African ancestors to their American-born descendants. Instead, a much more complicated patchwork of influences created New Orleans Voodoo, allowing it to move across boundaries of race, class, and gender. By employing late nineteenth and early twentieth-century first-hand accounts of Voodoo practitioners and their rituals, Roberts provides a nuanced understanding of who practiced Voodoo and why."--Publisher's description.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226) and index.

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