Haitian Vodou

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Haitian Vodou Mama Lola

• ANLD 1 Summer Session

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Haiti Setting the Context
http//www.amnh.org/exhibitions/vodou/about.html
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1492 Hispaniola
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1697

• Sugar, rum, coffee, cotton

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1791-1803 Slave Rebellion

• Bois Caiman
• Hero François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture
• 1804 Emperor Jacques I of Haiti (Dessalines)

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispaniola
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1915-1934

• US military occupation of Haiti

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1957-1971

• Francois Duvalier, president for life
• Papa Doc
• Tonton Makout

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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.
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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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Haitian Vodou
Syncretism? Fon/Nago and Kongo kingdoms
Catholicism European mysticism Free
masonry Taino
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Gods and Spirits

• Bondye supreme god
• Lwa
• Rada and Petwo

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