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Healing in the Homeland
Haitian Vodou Tradition
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2013
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Margaret Mitchell Armand presents a cutting edge interdisciplinary terrain inside an indigenous exploration of her homeland. Her contribution to the historiography of Haïtian Vodou demonstrates the struggle for its recognition in Haïti’s post-independence phase as well as its continued misunderstanding. Through a methodological, original study of the colonial culture of slavery and its dehumanization, Healing in the Homeland: Haitian Vodou Traditions examines the sociocultural and economic oppression stemming from the local and international derived politics and religious economic oppression.
While concentrating the narratives on stories of indigenous elites educated in the western traditions, Armand moves pass the variables of race to locate the historical conjuncture at the root of the persistent Haïtian national division. Supported by scholarships of indigenous studies and current analysis, she elucidates how a false consciousness can be overcome to reclaim cultural identity and pride, and include a sociocultural, national educational program, and political platform that embraces traditional needs in a global context of mutual respect. While shredding the western adages, and within an indigenous model of understanding, this book purposefully brings forth the struggle of the African people in Haïti.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-7361-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7362-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
248
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Contents No access
List of Illustrations No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One: Loko Atisou No access Pages 1 - 16
Chapter Two: Lenglensou No access Pages 17 - 48
Chapter Three: The Audacity of Faith Keeps the Drums Beating No access Pages 49 - 76
Chapter Four: The Poto Mitan of Decolonization No access Pages 77 - 94
Chapter Five: Gran Bwa No access Pages 95 - 132
Chapter Six: Azaka Mede No access Pages 133 - 168
Chapter Seven: United We Are in the Realms of the Lwas No access Pages 169 - 178
Appendix A: Genocide Convention No access Pages 179 - 184
Appendix B: Willie Lynch Letter: The Making of a Slave No access Pages 185 - 192
Appendix C: Petition for Successful Affranchissement No access Pages 193 - 198
Appendix D: Indigenous Peoples’ Forum at the United Nations No access Pages 199 - 200
Appendix E: Indigenous Peoples’ Rights No access Pages 201 - 208
Appendix F: United Nations Protection of the Heritage of Indigenous People No access Pages 209 - 210
Appendix G: Haïti’s Mineral Resources No access Pages 211 - 212
