A preponderance of the ethnographies published by researchers working in Haiti during the 1930s and 1940s focus on the Vodou religion. Yet the fact that many Haitian popular ritual practices were officially prohibited by penal law, first as «sortilèges» and later as «pratiques superstitieuses», and, on this basis, subject to US Marine, Protestant missionary, Catholic Church, and Haitian state offensives during these same years, is not always well-acknowledged or documented in this ethnographic literature. Focusing on the writings of Melvillle J. Herskovits, George Eaton Simpson, Jacques Roumain and Alfred Métraux, this article argues that the persecution of Haitian popular religious practices played a key role in propelling ethnographic w...
The last decades have seen some new trends within Haitian Vodou such as the first formal Vodou organ...
Gradi e funzioni della divinità nel Vodù haitiano, frutto di una cultura in sommo grado sincretica, ...
Haitian Vodou is a syncretic religion that combines elements of West African beliefs and indigenous ...
A preponderance of the ethnographies published by researchers working in Haiti during the 1930s and ...
International audienceDuring the years 1930-1940, Haiti became a crossroads and a field of investiga...
The creation of North American anthropology was significantly driven by the attempt to collect what ...
International audienceThe attempt to reconstruct a genealogy of scholarly productions of the cult re...
Ever since the night of August 14, 1791 at Bwa Kayman, where Boukman Dutty declared war on the Frenc...
My paper compares Haitian Vodou and Mormonism to address why over twenty-four-thousand Haitians have...
Toward an ethnohistory of Haitian pilgrimage. Combining historiography and ethnography, this article...
The Collection was obtained by Paul Barker, a faculty member of the Gorham State Teachers College, d...
The ways that some Haitian Protestants view of Vodou and the importance of karactè (character) have ...
This essay uses ethnographic research conducted among Haitian Protestants in the Bahamas in 2005 and...
Considering the function of Vodou as subversive force against political, economic, social, and cultu...
This dissertation explores a version of Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity in Haiti popularly know...
The last decades have seen some new trends within Haitian Vodou such as the first formal Vodou organ...
Gradi e funzioni della divinità nel Vodù haitiano, frutto di una cultura in sommo grado sincretica, ...
Haitian Vodou is a syncretic religion that combines elements of West African beliefs and indigenous ...
A preponderance of the ethnographies published by researchers working in Haiti during the 1930s and ...
International audienceDuring the years 1930-1940, Haiti became a crossroads and a field of investiga...
The creation of North American anthropology was significantly driven by the attempt to collect what ...
International audienceThe attempt to reconstruct a genealogy of scholarly productions of the cult re...
Ever since the night of August 14, 1791 at Bwa Kayman, where Boukman Dutty declared war on the Frenc...
My paper compares Haitian Vodou and Mormonism to address why over twenty-four-thousand Haitians have...
Toward an ethnohistory of Haitian pilgrimage. Combining historiography and ethnography, this article...
The Collection was obtained by Paul Barker, a faculty member of the Gorham State Teachers College, d...
The ways that some Haitian Protestants view of Vodou and the importance of karactè (character) have ...
This essay uses ethnographic research conducted among Haitian Protestants in the Bahamas in 2005 and...
Considering the function of Vodou as subversive force against political, economic, social, and cultu...
This dissertation explores a version of Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity in Haiti popularly know...
The last decades have seen some new trends within Haitian Vodou such as the first formal Vodou organ...
Gradi e funzioni della divinità nel Vodù haitiano, frutto di una cultura in sommo grado sincretica, ...
Haitian Vodou is a syncretic religion that combines elements of West African beliefs and indigenous ...