ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: West African Vodun, Ingroups And Outgroups, Staple Gun
7 Jul 2014
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Ethnography: mama lola: review, mama lola by karen mccarthy brown. An ethnography is an exercise in bridge building, where the anthropologist tries to explain and translate how a group of people create meaning or significance in their lives. Vodou is an example of a creole cultural formation. Mccarthy brown talks about doing ethnography work and writing an ethnographic text. Description of practices of voudu and how they are useful. The way mccarthy brown does her research, how she studies the topic and does her research. Talk about some of challenges she faced when she was doing this: mama lola-introduction. Voudou is volves an idea of possession, someone becomes possessed, and people do strange things because they are possessed by spirits work. Mama lola video: mama lola is my grandmother. Long time ago people used to hide these woman, and not anymore. I am a voudu business, i am in the voudu business.
