Afro-Caribbean Traditions Bibliography

Brandon, George. "Sacrificial Practices in Santeria, an African-Cuban Religion in the United States," in Joseph E. Holloway, ed., Africanisms in American Culture. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990.

Brandon, George. Santeria from Africa to the New World: The Dead Sell Memories. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Brown, Karen McCarthy. Mama Lola: A Voudou Priestess in Brooklyn. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Herskovits, Melville J. The Myth of the Negro Past. Boston: Beacon Press, 1958 (1941).

Matory, J. Lorand. Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.

Metrraux, Alred. Voodoo in Haiti. Hugo Charteris, translator. New York: Schocken Books, 1972 (1959).

Murphy, Joseph M. Santeria: African Spirits in America. Boston: Beacon Press, 1988.

Murphy, Joseph M. Working the Spirit: Ceremonies of the African Diaspora. Boston: Beacon Press, 1994.

Raboteau, Albert J. Slave Religion : The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Seaga, Edward. "Revival Cults in Jamaica: Notes Toward a Sociology of Religion." Jamaica Journal (June), 1969: 3-15.

Sonnenschein, Michael. "Santeria in Boston and Beyond." Harvard College term paper, Pluralism Project seminar, 1992.

Thompson, Robert Farris. Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy. New York: Random House, 1983.


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