Brown, Karen McCarthy — Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (1991/2001) Source Information

Brown, Karen McCarthy — Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn (1991/2001) Source Information Author: Karen McCarthy Brown Full Title: Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn Original Publication: 1991 Updated Edition Used Here: 2001 edition with new preface and afterword Type: Secondary Source — feminist ethnography, spiritual biography, and diaspora Vodou study Location in Vault: research/secondary-sources/ Extracted Text: brown mama lola.txt Status Text extracted: Yes — brown mama lola.txt Review pass: Completed (2026-03-28) — Brown/Vodou-diaspora pass focused on matrilineage, spirit-centered structure, immigrant ritual life, and women's priesthood Chapter notes: brown mama lola ch notes Graph review in this pass: Created lwa, haitian diaspora, and alourdes macena champagne lovinski; strengthened mambo, vodou, moc sources, and moc society culture Overview Mama Lola is one of the vault's strongest sources for seeing Vodou as daily labor rather than exceptional spectacle. Brown builds the book around Mama Lola / Alourdes, a Haitian manbo working in Brooklyn, and treats ritual, family history, migration, money, healing, possession, and women's authority as parts of one life instead of separate topics. The book matters because it is both intimate and structurally ambitious.