Mama Lola
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Birthday |
1st January, 1936
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Birthplace |
Haiti
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Zodiac Sign |
Capricorn
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Occupation Text |
Manbo (Vodou)
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Mama Lola is the nickname of a prominent Vodou spiritual and arts and culture leader in the United States. In 1991, the late Karen McCarthy Brown published the first edition of Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn, an ethnography based on the life of her research collaborator and friend since 1978, Alourdes. For the purposes of protecting the privacy of Alourdes and her family, Brown modified certain details of her life like her birthdate and name and the names of her descendants. The initial pseudonym attributed to Alourdes was "Marie Thérèse Alourdes Macena Margaux Kowalski". Already a prominent leader in her Brooklyn community and with strong ties maintained with her mother's neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Alourdes rose to greater public prominence as she increasingly participated in the arts and culture fields, academia, and other spiritual communities in the United States in the wake of the publication of the book. She increasingly used the nickname in her public appearances and also disclosed her full name at these venues. In the second edition of the book in 2001, Brown published Alourdes's full legal name, "Marie Thérèse Alourdes Macena Champagne Lovinski". According to Brown, " ... Alourdes combines the skills of a medical doctor, a psychotherapist, a social worker, and a priest." (5) Among the many spiritual communities that she now advises, Brown's research collaborator and friend Alourdes serves on occasion as a manbo (mambo) in a cultural center in New Orleans, Louisiana. The information that follows within this Wikipedia entry is derived mainly from the book in its first, second, and third editions. This Wikipedia entry reuses the pseudonyms Brown conferred on the people in Alourdes's life and some of the ways Brown combined accounts and created composite characters, or, as one notable scholar and artist writes about the book, how Brown took "creative liberties fictionalizing various strands of Lola’s familial and spiritual genealogies." This Wikipedia entry also uses current Haitian Creole (Kreyòl) spelling in the description of the spiritual entities of Vodou, which have other spellings in French and other iterations of French Creole languages.