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Title

Nan dòmi : an initiate's journey into Haitian vodou / Mimerose P. Beaubrun ; preface by Madison Smartt Bell ; translated by D. J. Walker.

Author

Beaubrun, Mimerose P. (Mimerose Pierre)

Publication

San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, [2013]

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Additional Authors

• Bell, Madison Smartt
• Walker, D. J. (Dolores J.), 1936-

Description

279 pages; 22 cm

Summary

The first and only insider's account of Vodou's private, mystical, interior practice, a compelling story of initiation and transformation.

Uniform Title

Nan dòmi, le récit d'une initiation vodou. English

Alternative Title

Nan dòmi, le récit d'une initiation vodou.

Subject

• Beaubrun, Mimerose P
• Anthropologists > Haiti > Biography
• Vodou > Haiti
• Vodou > Rituals
• Initiation rites > Religious aspects > Vodou
• Ethnology > Haiti

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• Biographies
• Biographies.

Note

• Translated from the French.
• Originally published as Nan dòmi, le récit d'une initiation vodou by Vents d'ailleurs, La Roque d'Anthéron, France, 2010.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The teaching of perception with Aunt Tansia -- Placement of the head -- Lwa or a state of lucid dreaming? -- The double and the dream body -- The purification -- Manipulating the double -- Walking in the swarm of stars -- Fixed in mystical knowledge -- The eye of the water -- Establishing a means of communication -- Manipulating one's gift -- The importance of Je -- I remember -- You must be perspicacious in order to see, or, There are conditions for seeing -- Having cold eyes, or, The fear of the unknown -- Laziness, or, Indecision -- Watch your step, or, Constant attention -- Witness of the nannan-rèv -- The farewell ceremony.

ISBN

• 9780872865747 (alk. paper)
• 0872865746 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2013035055

OCLC

• 812258399
• SCSB-10834145

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library