Kennesaw State University
An Ethnography of Voodoo Tourism and Heritage Sites in New Orleans, Lousiana
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<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 tourism relies on the city’s ghost stories, mythology, as well as Voodoo practices and lore, raising questions about the melding of fact and fiction in the potential perpetuation of sensational ideas about the city and its African heritage. Cultural sites discussed in this thesis include Congo Square, the New Orleans Voodoo Museum, Voodoo Authentica, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Isle of Salvation Botanica, two tours lead by guides, and attendance at a Voodoo initiation ceremony. These sites offer different lenses through which to represent and consume Voodoo as tourism and heritage ranging from touristic to the historically and spiritually meaningful.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Art in Art and Design (MAAD)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- The College of the Arts and the School of Art and Design
- Year dc:date.available
- 2022
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Long, Bryant
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Dr. Jessica Stephenson
- Dr. Cecile Accilien
- Dr. Diana McClintock
Subjects
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dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/art_etd/4
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu:art_etd-1003