Haitian Voodoo by Nicolas Vonarx, Raymond Massé
Haitian Voodoo by Nicolas Vonarx, Raymond Massé
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By moving an a priori religious object like Haitian voodoo into the field of illness, the author offers us a better understanding of the interfaces that exist between illness, medicine and religion in Haiti. Beyond his ethnographic contributions on Haitian society and on a phenomenon long considered mysterious, the monograph he offers us on voodoo advances the broad outlines of an interpenetration of the religious and the medical that can be observed in many societies. From an analysis of voodoo that does not seek to exclude its religious aspects in favor of its medical aspects, but which nevertheless puts its status as an Afro-American religion in parentheses, this book leads us to see the medical, care and a quest for health, where we too quickly think that it is primarily about religion and religious rituals. In addition to providing an overview of Vodou that was truly lacking in the literature, and in addition to showing us Vodou practices as they take place in Haiti, this book suggests new research that could show that elsewhere the religious dimension of practices and rituals supports their preventive, curative and healing dimensions. Visiting initially the Haitian countryside and becoming familiar with Vodou, we are finally invited to question the way in which religion or forms of spirituality can rub shoulders with illness and healing practices in the West.
