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Vodou En Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reve...
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Vodou En Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reve...
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The Urgency of Indigenous Values
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /Philip Arnold explores the vital need to understand Indigenous values in order to overcome the legacy of colonialism, represent Indigenous convicti...
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The Fate of Earthly Things: Aztec Gods and God-Bodies
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Following their first contact in 1519, accounts of Aztecs identifying Spaniards as gods proliferated. But what exactly did the Aztecs mean by a "go...
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El Monte: Notes on the Religions, Magic, and Folklore of the Black and Creole People of Cuba
HardcoverOriginal price $134.95 - Original price $134.95Original price $134.95$156.99$156.99 - $156.99Current price $156.99| /First published in Cuba in 1954 and appearing here in English for the first time, Lydia Cabrera's El Monte is a foundational and iconic study of Af...
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El Monte: Notes on the Religions, Magic, and Folklore of the Black and Creole People of Cuba
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /First published in Cuba in 1954 and appearing here in English for the first time, Lydia Cabrera's El Monte is a foundational and iconic study of Af...
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Nan Domi: An Initiate's Journey Into Haitian Vodou
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /This new and valuable book delves into the 'interior' experience of voodoo, as opposed to the usual outsider focus on ritual and cosmology. In tell...
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The Urgency of Indigenous Values
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Philip Arnold explores the vital need to understand Indigenous values in order to overcome the legacy of colonialism, represent Indigenous convicti...
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An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya is the first-ever English-language dictionary of Mesoamerican mythology and religion. Nearly 30...
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Coming Down from Above: Prophecy, Resistance, and Renewal in Native American Religionsvolume 258
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$95.99$95.99 - $95.99Current price $95.99| /For longer than five centuries, Native Americans have struggled to adapt to colonialism, missionization, and government control policies. This fi...
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A Year in White: Cultural Newcomers to Lukumi and Santería in the United States
HardcoverOriginal price $150.00 - Original price $150.00Original price $150.00$181.99$181.99 - $181.99Current price $181.99| /In the Afro-Cuban Lukumi religious tradition—more commonly known in the United States as Santería—entrants into the priesthood undergo an extraor...
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A Year in White: Cultural Newcomers to Lukumi and Santería in the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /In the Afro-Cuban Lukumi religious tradition—more commonly known in the United States as Santería—entrants into the priesthood undergo an extraor...
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Rastafari: Roots and Ideology
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The first comprehensive work on the origins of the Jamaica-based Rastafaris, including interviews with some of the earliest members of the moveme...
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The Sacred Pipe: An Archetypal Theology / Edition 1
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Paul B. Steinmetz served as a Catholic priest among the Oglala Lakota in South Dakota from 1961 to 1981. During that time. at the funeral of Rex ...
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The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Through The Healing Wisdom of Africa, readers can come to understand that the life of indigenous and traditional people is a paradigm for an inti...
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Mestizaje: (Re)Mapping Race, Culture, and Faith in Latina/o Catholicism
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The concept of mestizaje-a reference to the distinctive biological and cultural intermixture that occurred in the. "New World"-has become a found...
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Developing the Dead: Mediumship and Selfhood in Cuban Espiritismo
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Studying the relationships cultivated by mediums between the living and the dead "A major empirical contribution to the debate about antirepresenta...
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Secrets of Voodoo
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Secrets of Voodoo traces the development of this complex religion (in Haiti and the Americas) from its sources in the brilliant civilizations of ...
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The Reluctant Pilgrim: A Skeptic's Journey Into Native Mysteries
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Forty years ago, while paging through a book sent as an unexpected gift from a friend, Roger Welsch came across a curious reference to stones that ...
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Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /The indigenous imperative to honor nature is undermined by federal laws approving resource extraction through mining and drilling. Formal protectio...
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Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Only the power to define what is sacred--and access it--will enable Native American communities to remember who they are.Product DetailsISBN-13: 97...
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Jambalaya: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A refreshed edition of Jambalaya: The Natural Woman’s Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals—updated with a note from the author sharing t...
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Santeria: the Religion: Faith, Rites, Magic
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Brought to Cuba as slaves, the Yoruba people of West Africa preserved their religion's heritage by disguising their gods as Catholic saints and w...
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Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Katrina Hazzard-Donald explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. She exam...
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