Haitian Voodoo by Alfred Métraud
Haitian Voodoo by Alfred Métraud
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Description
Dating back over 50 years, one of the very best ethnological studies of voodoo.
Published in 1958, this collection produced by ethnologist Alfred Métraux remains today one of the best studies carried out on voodoo, based on the patient study of hundreds of observations collected in Haiti between 1948 and 1950.
Beyond the censuses of the voodoo pantheon, its Fon and Yoruba roots, and the independent developments followed from the end of the slave trade with the independence of Haiti, Alfred Métraux attaches great importance to a description and analysis as precise as possible of the "feeling" by the actors, in their behavior, their rituals and their social construction, as well as to the syncretic links woven with Catholicism or to those, of ambiguous hatred, with Protestantism.
A fascinating work, and moreover, a captivating indirect “backlighting” on Beninese voodoo.