voudon

On one of the Windward islands, he also comes under the power of the afro-Caribbean syncretic religion known in different places as santeria, voudon, or candomble.

An Interview with Robert Stone 2010

Lara believes herself bound to the fearsome voudon personality known as "Marinette."

An Interview with Robert Stone 2010

So you get the self-proclaimed Satanists of suburbia who latch on to these rituals, buy books on voudon and Santeria, and end up appropriating ideas and rituals from these cultures, co-opting them into their own travesties of rituals.

More on Cultural Appropriation Hal Duncan 2006

But I do think in the particular instance of an appropriated voudon ritual, there's a case to be made that this act, presumably with an audience/congregation, as a performance can be considered as a representation as well as an appropriation, that we need to be aware of how an act can function as both.

More on Cultural Appropriation Hal Duncan 2006

So the appropriation of voudon rituals, sand-paintings and such-like is unethical.

Archive 2006-09-01 Hal Duncan 2006

In the case of voudon, you have misrepresentations that demonise the practitioners of this "black magic".

More on Cultural Appropriation Hal Duncan 2006

So the appropriation of voudon rituals, sand-paintings and such-like is unethical.

More on Cultural Appropriation Hal Duncan 2006

So the appropriation of voudon rituals, sand-paintings and such-like is unethical.

More on Cultural Appropriation Hal Duncan 2006

Writing a 5-page scene in a novel which portrays a voudon ritual is not the same thing as setting yourself up as a practicing "babaloa" in Bognor Regis.

Archive 2006-06-01 Hal Duncan 2006

That's the focus of my "voudon ritual" example in the original post.

Archive 2006-09-01 Hal Duncan 2006