Monday, August 1, 2011

Voodoo In Haiti

Métraux, Alfred, Voodoo In Haiti, (Translated by Hugo Charteris; New introduction by Sidney Mintz), New York: Schocken Books, 1972

Reviewed in Journal of Black Studies © 1973.

Reviewed in American Anthropologist © 1961.

Cited in Caribbean Quarterly © 1978, among many others...

Wikipedia:
Alfred Métraux (5 November 1902 - 12 April 1963) was a Swiss anthropologist and human rights leader. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Metraux spent much of his childhood in Argentina where his father was a well known surgeon resident in Mendoza. His mother was a Georgian from Tbilisi. He received his secondary and university education in Europe, at the Classical Gymnasium of Lausanne, the Ecole Nationale des Chartes in Paris, the Ecole Nationale des Langues Orientales (Diplome, 1925). The Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Diplome, 1927) and the Sorbonne (Docteur es Lettres, 1928). He also studied in Sweden, in Gothenburg’s Hogskola, and did research at the Göteborg Museum. Among his teachers were Marcel Mauss, Paul Rivet, and Erland von Nordenskiold...

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