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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"voodoo"”.
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Voodoo Love
<p>"Voodoo Love" is a music video for jazz saxophonist, Lance Ellis. Set at The Turning Point Lounge in New Orleans, as well as the countrysides of Madisonville and Bush, Louisiana, the video takes us into a world where classic Motown style meets the world of campy horror films. Voodoo Love is also …
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The Voodoo Gospel and The Christian Gospel
… Foreign Mission Convention, U.S.A., I found Voodoo to be far more prevalent there than I had been led to believe, and I was very ill-prepared to cope with it in the rural area where I was assigned to work. I knew also that after two years I was to go to Liberia, ' West Africa, where I would …
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An Ethnography of Voodoo Tourism and Heritage Sites in New Orleans, Lousiana
<p>This thesis considers how Voodoo is presented and experienced in various tourism and heritage sites within New Orleans in the present moment. A variety of visual representations, verbal narratives and multimedia performances were documented and analyzed through participant observation. Current …
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Producing Voodoo charm, an original children's play: the director's viewpoint
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The Darker Angels Of Our Nature: The South In American Horror Film
… of the genre: the white degenerate redneck, the Voodoo film, the natural horror film, and the post-modern horror parody. Using the theories of Giorgio Agamben and Julia Kristeva as a foundation, the study also tries to evaluate the processes by which the South is constructed as the nation's …
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The Effects of Instigation, Experiential Avoidance, and Emotion Dysregulation on Dating Aggression
… an experimental test of aggression using the Voodoo Doll Task (VDT). College students (N = 269) listened to a neutral recording and then completed a behavioral measure of aggressive tendencies, the VDT. Participants then listened to a provocative jealousy induction scenario and again completed …
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STEWARDSHIP IN WEST AFRICAN VODUN: A CASE STUDY OF OUIDAH, BENIN
… Caribbean and Americas where it transmuted into Voodoo, among other religions. The migration of pre-colonial religious canon to the Western Hemisphere has garnered ample study; however, the pioneering religion, Vodun, has received far less scholastic attention, despite Benin’s recognition of …
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STEWARDSHIP IN WEST AFRICAN VODUN: A CASE STUDY OF OUIDAH, BENIN
… Caribbean and Americas where it transmuted into Voodoo, among other religions. The migration of pre-colonial religious canon to the Western Hemisphere has garnered ample study; however, the pioneering religion, Vodun, has received far less scholastic attention, despite Benin’s recognition of …
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Broken Gourd
… the Afro-Latinx communities (mainly from Haitian voodoo drumming) combined with melodic lines that imitate the Taino way of singing and playing. In the Caribbean Taino culture there is a tale that describes the formation of the seas. The tale talks about a man named Yaya, whose son, Yayael, would …
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The Revenant Signifier: The Zombie in Comics and Cinema
… a symbol of eternal slavery within Haitian Voodoo folklore; and its modern interpretation as violent and virulent monster. The recent notion of a zombie plague has redefined the creature as a representation of modern fears, and has led to ‘zombie apocalypse’ becoming a commonly-used fantasy …
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When secrecy goes global: Vodún, tourism, and the politics of knowing in Bénin, West Africa
… practitioners (especially followers of Vodún/Voodoo) negotiate, and in some cases broker, secret religious knowledge through interactions with international tourists. Based on 21 months of fieldwork (3 months pre-dissertation and 18 months doctoral research) in and around Ouidah, Bénin, I …
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Kongo to Kings County
… and is an essential component to many Haitian Voodoo ceremonies. Additionally, small white pearlware fragments were found. In Kongo cosmology, the color white is believed to symbolize the world of the dead, and the color white is very important in rituals, as well. White items are also found in …
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Where the Dead Remain
Where the Dead Remain is a murder mystery set in a Post-Katrina New Orleans where the gods, magic and monsters of various world mythologies actually exist. The story follows a week in the life of Jude Duboisson, a once magician who is struggling with the loss of his magic and the life he had known …
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Revelations: Spirituality as Privileged Perspectivism in Magical Realist Distortions
<p>This thesis examines the role of spiritual beliefs in the literary mode now known as magical realism in Cuban Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of This World (1949), Indian-Born British and American Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses (1988), and a lesser-known novel, Household Saints (1981) by …