Toward an ethnohistory of Haitian pilgrimage

Terry Rey

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Toward an ethnohistory of Haitian pilgrimage. Combining historiography and ethnography, this article illustrates the various ethno-religious streams that have fertilized Haiti’s thriving pilgrimage traditions. With particular focus on the cults and feasts of St. James the Greater/Ogou Feray in La-Plaine-du-Nord and of St. Philomena/Lasyrenn in Bord-de-Mer-de-Limonade, and with a careful consideration of Kongolese religious culture (both Catholic and traditional), a convincing case is made here that pilgrimage in Haiti owes much more to Central African traditions than is generally acknowledged by scholars of Vodou, who over-emphasize the religion’s West African roots.

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1992The Religious Boundaries of an Inbetween People: Street Feste and the Problem of the Dark-Skinned Other in Italian Harlem, 1920-1990 2001Twins, Simbi Spirits, and Lwas in Kongo and Haiti 2002Wizards and Scientists

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