Lauren Derby: Bêtes Noires | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781478032786 | Bêtes Noires | Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands

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Beschreibung

In Bêtes Noires, Lauren Derby explores storytelling traditions among the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, focusing on shape-shifting spirit demons called baka/bacá. Drawing on interviews with and life stories of residents in a central Haitian-Dominican frontier town, Derby contends that bacás-hot spirits from the sorcery side of vodou/vodú that present as animals and generate wealth for their owners-are a manifestation of what Dominicans call fukú de Colón, the curse of Columbus. The dogs, pigs, cattle, and horses that Columbus brought with him are the only types of animals that bacás become. As instruments of Indigenous dispossession, these animals and their spirit demons convey a history of trauma and racialization in Dominican popular culture. In the context of slavery and beyond, bacás keep alive the promise of freedom, since shape-shifting has long enabled fugitivity. As Derby demonstrates, bacás represent a complex history of race, religion, repression, and resistance.

Über den Autor

Lauren Derby is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is author of The Dictator’s Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo and coeditor of The Dominican Republic Reader: History, Culture, Politics, both also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Preface. From the Mouth of the Goat xiii
Introduction. Spirits, History, and Power 1
1. Preternaturalia: Of Talking Cows 17
2. The Mysterious Murder of Javier 43
3. The Inscrutable Jailbreak of Clément Barbot 68
4. Creole Pigs as Memento Mori 87
5. Specters of Columbus 112
6. Big Men and Tall Tails 128
7. Becoming Animal: Food, Sex, and the Animal Grotesque 161
Notes 187
Bibliography 265
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781478032786
ISBN-10:	1478032782
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Derby, Lauren
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße:	229 x 152 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Lauren Derby
Erscheinungsdatum:	18.11.2025
Gewicht:	0,581 kg