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Title: Haitian Vodou


1
Haitian Vodou Mama Lola
  • ANLD 1 Summer Session

2
Haiti Setting the Context
http//www.amnh.org/exhibitions/vodou/about.html
3
1492 Hispaniola
4
1697
  • Sugar, rum, coffee, cotton

5
1791-1803 Slave Rebellion
  • Bois Caiman
  • Hero François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture
  • 1804 Emperor Jacques I of Haiti (Dessalines)

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispaniola
6
1915-1934
  • US military occupation of Haiti

7
1957-1971
  • Francois Duvalier, president for life
  • Papa Doc
  • Tonton Makout

8
Tonton 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
http//www.jstor.org/cgi-bin/jstor/viewitem/016124
92/dm991325/99p0038v/0?framenoframedpi3backcon
textpage Tonton Makout/Tonton Makout Callaloo,
Vol. 15, No. 3, Haitian Literature and Culture,
Part 2. (Summer, 1992), pp. 673-674.
9
1990
  • President Aristide
  • 1990-1991, 1994-1996, 2001-2004

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1996
  • Rene Garcia Preval

http//www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20
070508-5.html
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2004
  • Another coup
  • 2006 President Preval (again)

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Haitian_coup_d2
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12
Haitian Vodou
Syncretism? Fon/Nago and Kongo kingdoms
Catholicism European mysticism Free
masonry Taino
13
Gods and Spirits
  • Bondye supreme god
  • Lwa
  • Rada and Petwo

14
Azaka
'Papa Zaka' by Gérard Valcin http//www.amnh.org/e
xhibitions/vodou/spirits2.htmlspirit
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Spirit repositories
http//www.amnh.org/exhibitions/vodou/tools4.html
tools1
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