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Vodou: Mama Lola

Vodou: Mama Lola. Anthony F. C. Wallace.

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Vodou: Mama Lola

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  1. Vodou: Mama Lola

  2. Anthony F. C. Wallace • Anthropologist Anthony F. C. Wallace has defined religion as "belief and ritual concerned with supernatural beings, powers, and forces" (1966, p. 5). Like ethnicity or language, religion may be associated with social divisions within and between societies and nations. Religious behavior and beliefs both unite and divide. Participation in common rites may affirm, and thus maintain, the social solidarity of a religion's adherents.

  3. Haiti 1492 (Hispaniola)

  4. 1791-1803 Slave Rebellion • Bois Caiman • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwotKIe3OlI • Hero: François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture • 1804 Emperor Jacques I of Haiti (Dessalines) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispaniola

  5. Slave revolution

  6. Haiti’s independence 1804 • Vodou as a religious and political movement against colonial rulers. Religion of identity Religion of the Diaspora Transnational religious movement

  7. Vodou of Haiti • Syncretism • Fon/Nago and Kongo Kingdoms • Catholicism • Creol (Indigenous practice in Haiti) • Free Masonary ( Masonary lodges of the Colonists) • Indigenous Taino People http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/vodou/roots4.html

  8. A syncretic practice • A syncretism is a cultural mix, religious blends, that emerge when two or more cultural traditions come into contact. • Examples include voodoo, santeria, and candomlé. • The cargo cults of Melanesia and Papua New Guinea are syncretisms of Christian doctrine with aboriginal beliefs. • Syncretisms often emerge when traditional, non-Western societies have regular contact with industrialized societies. • Syncretisms attempt to explain European domination and wealth and to achieve similar success magically by mimicking European behavior and symbols.

  9. Divine beings • Bondye: Supreme being • Lwa • Rada and Petwo

  10. Vodou Spirits 'Papa Zaka' by Gérard Valcin • Azaka

  11. Ezili

  12. Vodou Spirits • http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/vodou/tools4.html#tools1

  13. Mama Lola:The role of Vodou Sp

  14. Mama Lola • An ethnography: thick description of Mama Lola’s life in USA and Haiti • Life History of a Vodou Priestess living in Brooklyn, New York, her religious practice and • Leadership in the diasporic communiy

  15. The Role of Vodou • Spirits are mounted by Mama Lola • They deal with everyday problems, stress and strain of life of the people in the community. • Oral History told by Mama Loa about her ancestors • A different history compared to the textual knowledge

  16. Vodou: A living religion • Enactment of Myth in rituals • Possession • Celebration of Dead and death • Ancestor Worship • Religion is deeply embedded in people’s daily lives. They seek it out, use it for survival. • Religion, the very meaning of life.

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