author: donald cosentino

Vodou Things: The Art of Pierrot Barra and Marie Cassaise

... Vodou initiates . But as hotter categories of Vodou divinities are invoked , from Petwo to Kongo to Makaya to Bizango , the regleman loosens up . More unrestrained powers and violent energies demand more dramatic juxtapositions in ...

Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou

... twins . Purchased by author in Salvador da Bahia , Brazil , 1988 . 10.25 . Twin altar in Los Angeles , made for a ceremony in honor of the sacred twins at the ile ( religious house ) of santero Ysamur Flores . Photograph , Donald ...

Representations of Violence: Art about the Sierra Leone Civil War

... Karin Wolf, Donald Cosentino, Sabine Mödersheim, Mathew J. Christensen, Jonathan A. Peters, Mariama Ross, Rebecca ... Karin performed faithfully as our grant writer and assistant project director and I thank her deeply . The research ...

Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou

Among the many topics covered are the ten major Vodou divinities: Vodou's roots in the Fon and Kongo kingdoms of Africa and its transformation in the experiences of slavery, and the encounter with European spiritual systems; Vodou praxis, ...

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