Title: Haitian Vodou
1Haitian Vodou Mama Lola
2Haiti Setting the Context
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31492 Hispaniola
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- Sugar, rum, coffee, cotton
51791-1803 Slave Rebellion
- Bois Caiman
- Hero François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture
- 1804 Emperor Jacques I of Haiti (Dessalines)
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61915-1934
- US military occupation of Haiti
71957-1971
- Francois Duvalier, president for life
- Papa Doc
- Tonton Makout
8Tonton Makout
- A boy was going to play
- He climbed out on a tree branch
- His mama told him to come down
- A passing tonton makout asked her
- Do you want me to bring him down for you
- He drew his pistol and killed the boy.
from Dyakout 1,2,3,4 by Felix Morisseau-Leroy
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textpage Tonton Makout/Tonton Makout Callaloo,
Vol. 15, No. 3, Haitian Literature and Culture,
Part 2. (Summer, 1992), pp. 673-674.
91990
- President Aristide
- 1990-1991, 1994-1996, 2001-2004
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- Another coup
- 2006 President Preval (again)
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7C3A9tat
12Haitian Vodou
Syncretism? Fon/Nago and Kongo kingdoms
Catholicism European mysticism Free
masonry Taino
13Gods and Spirits
- Bondye supreme god
- Lwa
- Rada and Petwo
14Azaka
'Papa Zaka' by Gérard Valcin http//www.amnh.org/e
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15Spirit repositories
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