AFAMAIN copy 39088019733823 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Part 1 What Is Haitian Vodou? -- 1 Zo Li Mache: How Haiti -- and Haitian Vodou -- Came to Be 17 -- 2 Aprè Bondye: ...

Haitian Vodou is an African-derived religion shaped by slavery, resistance, and survival. It centers on reciprocal ...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Patrick Bellegarde-Smith and Claudine Michel -- 1: Vodun and social transformation in the African diasporic experience: the concept of personhood in Haitian Vodun ...

In Haiti, locals took to the streets recently to protest a new governmental decree that threatens the practice of the Vodou religion. Gina Athena Ulysse, a contributor at the Huffington Post, writes ...

The spotlight will again be on Haiti when University of Miami history professor Kate Ramsey talks about her book The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti. She argues that when the government ...

Haitians across South Florida will honor native tradition and spirituality as they celebrate through music and dance the island nation’s annual Fèt Gede — Festival of the Dead — which is Haiti’s ...

Dance is Life: Performers in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince reassert the nation's cultural identity in the face of gang violence. Twenty dancers gathered in a leafy garden in Port-au-Prince on ...

Lespri Endepandan: Discovering Haitian Sculpture,” now on display at FIU’s Frost Art Museum, is a great show. This is the first time that sculpture from Haiti has been the sole focus of a major museum ...