{"product_id":"a-transatlantic-history-of-haitian-vodou-rasin-figuier-rasin-bwa-kayiman-and-the-rada-and-gede-rites-9781496835611","title":"A Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou: Rasin Figuier, Rasin Bwa Kayiman, and the Rada and Gede Rites","description":"Connecting four centuries of political, social, and religious history with fieldwork and language documentation, \u003ci\u003eA Transatlantic History of Haitian Vodou\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes Haitian Vodou's African origins, transmission to Saint-Domingue, and promulgation through song in contemporary Haiti. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSplit into two sections, the African chapters focus on history, economics, and culture in Dahomey, Allada, and Hueda while scrutinizing the role of Europeans in fomenting tensions. The political, military, and slave trading histories of the kingdoms in the Bight of Benin reveal the circumstances of enslavement, including the geographies, ethnicities, languages, and cultures of enslavers and enslaved. The study of the spirits, rituals, structure, and music of the region's religions sheds light on important sources for Haitian Vodou. Having royal, public, and private expressions, Vodun spirit-based traditions served as cultural systems that supported or contested power and enslavement. At once suppliers and victims of the European slave trade, the people of Dahomey, Allada, and Hueda deeply shaped the emergence of Haiti's creolized culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Haitian chapters focus on Vodou's Rada Rite (from Allada) and Gede Rite (from Abomey) through the songs of Rasin Figuier's \u003ci\u003eVodou Lakay\u003c\/i\u003e and Rasin Bwa Kayiman's \u003ci\u003eGuede\u003c\/i\u003e, legendary \u003ci\u003erasin \u003c\/i\u003ecompact discs released on Jean Altidor's Miami label, Mass Konpa Records. All the Vodou songs on the discs are analyzed with a method dubbed \"Vodou hermeneutics\" that harnesses history, religious studies, linguistics, literary criticism, and ethnomusicology in order to advance a scholarly approach to Vodou songs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenjamin Hebblethwaite\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Florida. He is author of \u003ci\u003eVodou Songs in Haitian Creole and English \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eof \u003ci\u003eStirring the Pot of Haitian History \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eUne saison en enfer. Yon sezon matchyavel: En français et en créole haïtien\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50448799793426,"sku":"9781496835611","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0ba763b5-9641-42d4-9f97-0f47eda376c7.jpg?v=1729738003","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-transatlantic-history-of-haitian-vodou-rasin-figuier-rasin-bwa-kayiman-and-the-rada-and-gede-rites-9781496835611","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}