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Podcast: Fascinating Nouns
Episode: Ep. 24 The History of Haitian Vodou
Description:
*Taken from his website*
Donald John Cosentino, Ph.D., is a retired Professor of Culture and Performance (Folklore, Literature, Visual and Material Arts, Popular Culture, African and Afro-Caribbean Studies). Dr. Cosentino has done extensive fieldwork on African and diasporic cultures in Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Haiti. He is the author of “Vodou Things: The Art of Pierrot Barra and Marie Cassaise” (University of Mississippi Press, 1998). He is the editor and chief writer of the award winning catalog for “The Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou” (1995), a traveling exhibition he curated for the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural...