"Vodou Spirits in Haitian Art" by Donald Cosentino

Описание: 09.08.11

This lecture was delivered at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn as programming for the exhibition Lespri Endonptabl: Selected Works from the Winslow Anderson Collection of Haitian Art at the Huntington Museum.

Donald Cosentino is a recently retired Professor of Culture and Performance (Folklore, Literature, Visual and Material Arts, Popular Culture, African and Afro-Caribbean Studies) at University of California, Los Angeles. He has done extensive fieldwork on African and diasporic cultures in Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Haiti. He is the author of Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers: Tradition and Invention in Mende Story Performance (Cambridge, 1982) and 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 catalogue for The Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou (1995), a traveling exhibition he curated for the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History. Cosentino has been co-editor of African Arts magazine, published by the UCLA African Studies Center, since 1988.

This lecture was cosponsored by Auburn University's common book program, Auburn Connects! which for 2011-2012 is focusing on Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World," by Tracy Kidder.