{"id":321,"date":"2019-08-29T12:57:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T16:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/?product=vodou-brooklyn-five-ceremonies-with-manbo-marie-carmel-2"},"modified":"2019-10-16T14:30:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T18:30:52","slug":"vodou-brooklyn-five-ceremonies-with-manbo-marie-carmel-2","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/?product=vodou-brooklyn-five-ceremonies-with-manbo-marie-carmel-2","title":{"rendered":"Vodou Brooklyn: Five Ceremonies with Mambo Marie Carmel"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>by Stephanie Keith<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This book is an intimate portrayal of a Haitian immigrant Vodou priestess. Color photographs and text document the young Mambo presiding over five distinct Vodou ceremonies held in one year in a single basement in Brooklyn, NY. By focusing on what happens in this transformed basement, the reader becomes personally involved with the people of this community through seeing them from ceremony to ceremony.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>In six decades of existence, I have never seen photography as respectful, as transcendent, as perfect as that of Stephanie Keith\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s. She is an artist \u00e2\u20ac\u0153kissed\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by the Spirit world, and shall gain the affection of the Lwa, no doubt. All I can say is mesi anpil.<\/em>\u00e2\u201d\u20acPatrick Bellegarde-Smith Houngan Asogwe and Professor of Africology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>This beautiful book is a homage of love. I really admire the party-hard vibrancy of the images. Vodou Brooklyn beautifully captures the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153gangans\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (elegance) of Mambo Marie Carmel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ceremonies.<\/em>\u00e2\u201d\u20acDonald John Cosentino, Ph.D., Professor of Culture and Performance, UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures, and Author of\u00c2\u00a0<em>Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/252234\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Click here to watch Stephanie&#8217;s interview on Speaking of Faith<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">138 pp., softcover, with full color photographs, 11 x 8.5 inches.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Cat. #<\/strong>: CSP5662 \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>ISBN #:\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>9781584326700<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[27],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-321","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-culture","7":"product_shipping_class-shipping","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"featured","12":"taxable","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_brand&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}