The rainy season: Haiti since DuvalierRecounting a series of personal journeys, each interwoven with scenes from Haiti's extraordinary past, the author brings to life the day-to-day realities of the politically turbulent country |
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excesses of centuries of Catholic Church persecution of the voodoo faithful, an
inquisition in many eras — including that of the U.S. occupation — almost as
vicious and violent as the campaigns against heretics that Europe had known.
excesses of centuries of Catholic Church persecution of the voodoo faithful, an
inquisition in many eras — including that of the U.S. occupation — almost as
vicious and violent as the campaigns against heretics that Europe had known.
Page 165
He drinks more rum and begins to sing in langage, the ritual language of voodoo,
an eerie sound, so close to Creole and French and Church Latin that you almost
think you can understand it, like a foreign language in a dream. Langage is the ...
He drinks more rum and begins to sing in langage, the ritual language of voodoo,
an eerie sound, so close to Creole and French and Church Latin that you almost
think you can understand it, like a foreign language in a dream. Langage is the ...
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Black magic is a part of voodoo. For the past century, Haitian intellectuals eager
to legitimize voodoo in the eyes of foreigners and to protect it from attacks by the
Catholic Church have tried to establish an artificial divide between voodoo, which
...
Black magic is a part of voodoo. For the past century, Haitian intellectuals eager
to legitimize voodoo in the eyes of foreigners and to protect it from attacks by the
Catholic Church have tried to establish an artificial divide between voodoo, which
...
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| Title | The rainy season: Haiti since Duvalier |
| Author | Amy Wilentz |
| Publisher | Simon and Schuster, 1989 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 0671641867, 9780671641863 |
| Length | 427 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / General Political Science / General Social Science / Sociology / General |
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