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In this marvelous book Richman masterly pilots the reader through global, national, local, and personal levels of knowledge and experience. Detailed yet absorbing, documented yet seamless, scholarly yet accessible... I laughed and I cried. How many academic works elicit such emotions? - Journal of World Anthropology Has much to say about the transformative potential of song and ritual in Haiti and its diaspora.... The book's appeal should extend to those outside the academy as well. - The World of Music A unique ethnographic enquiry into the rarely mentioned mating of economics and religion. - New West Indian Guide Tells the metastory of Pierre Dioguy, nicknamed Ti Chini, or 'Little Caterpillar,' a Haitian migrant laborer working in the rural American South.... Little Caterpillar and his extended family in Haiti become Richman's subjects (and collaborators) in crafting a nuanced analysis of power, resistance, performance, and religious change. - H-Net Reviews

Karen E. Richman is director of the Center for Migration and Border Studies at the Institute for Latino Studies, on the faculty of Africana studies, and a fellow of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She has also worked as an advocate for immigrant workers in the United States.