Voodoo Shop, French Quarter, New Orleans

by Felix Lai

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Voodoo Shop, French Quarter, New Orleans

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Felix Lai

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This photo captures a tourist attraction, the Voodoo shop in French Quarter, New Orleans. It is popular with tourists partly because of its location near Bourbon Street and its colorful facade. Instead of the original photo, I decided to process it to reflect the colors, energy and festive mood of French Quarter.

Louisiana Voodoo, also known as New Orleans Voodoo, describes a set of spiritual folkways developed from the traditions of the African diaspora. It is a cultural form of the Afro-American religions developed by West and Central Africans populations of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Voodoo is one of many incarnations of African-based spiritual folkways rooted in West African Dahomeyan Vodun. Its liturgical language is Louisiana Creole French, the language of the Louisiana Creole people.

Voodoo became syncretized with the Catholic and Francophone culture of New Orleans as a result of the African cultural oppression in the region resulting from the Atlantic slave trade. Louisiana Voodoo is often confused with—but is not completely separable from—Haitian Vodou and Deep Southern Hoodoo. It differs from Haitian Vodou in its emphasis upon gris-gris, Voodoo queens, use of Hoodoo paraphernalia, and Li Grand Zombi. It was through Louisiana Voodoo that such terms as gris-gris (a Wolof term)[citation needed] and "Voodoo dolls"' were introduced into the American lexicon.

* Copyright Felix Lai. Watermark will not appear on final prints of the photograph.

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