Table of Contents

Invisible Powers: An Introduction     xi
Afro-Caribbean Spirituality: A Haitian Case Study   Karen McCarthy Brown     1
Vodou in Haiti: Way of Life and Mode of Survival   Claudine Michel     27
African Interpretations of the Christian Cross in Vodou   Leslie Gerald Desmangles     39
The Song of Freedom: Vodou, Conscientization, and Popular Culture in Haiti   Gerdes Fleurant     51
Yon Moso Twal nan Bwa (A Piece of Cloth on Wood): The Drapo Vodou in Myths of Origin   Anna Wexler     65
"The Jew" in the Haitian Imagination: Pre-Modern Anti-Judaism in the Post-Modern Caribbean   Elizabeth A. McAlister     79
Resisting Freedom: Cultural Factors in Democracy-The Case for Haiti   Patrick Bellegarde-Smith     101
The Haiti-New Orleans Vodou Connection: Zora Neale Hurston as Initiate Observer   Richard Brent Turner     117
Water in Their Eyes, Dust on Their Land: Heat and Illness in a Haitian Town   Pierre Minn     135
How Houngans Use the Light from Distant Stars   LeGrace Benson     155
Vodou in Haitian Literature   Carrol F. Coates     181
It's All for You, Sen Jak!   Donald J. Cosentino     199
Notes on Contributors     217
Index     221