RARA Vodou, Power and Performance
RARA AND POLITICS
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Images
 Soldiers Guard Duvalier's Tomb ++ high res |  Rara for Duvalier ++ high res |  The colonel directs ++ high res |
 Rara streams down a street in Carrefour ++ high res |  Rara colonels on the move, whips in hand ++ high res |  A Rara band from a distance ++ high res |
 Rara walks in the Artibonite Valley ++ high res |
Video
 | This Rara from Cite Soley Rara sings about leaving Haiti. In the early
1990s, during the coup period, many people tried to leave Haiti in
leaky
boats. Untold numbers drowned, and most others were returned back
to
Haiti. ++ High Bandwidth + Low Bandwidth |
 | Rara band arrives a large lakou in the Artibonite. They salute the
spirits
who live at the gates with large circling dances called vire (turn). (This
means that this Rara is also part of a religious society.) Later that
night,
the patriarch of the lakou will come out to receive them. This is all
part of the
politics of patronage, both of the human and spirit worlds. ++ High Bandwidth + Low Bandwidth |