Ainsi Parla l'Oncle: Essais d'ethnographie

The foundational indigéniste manifesto written during the U.S. occupation, arguing that Vodou, Kreyòl, peasant life, and African heritage — what the Haitian elite treated as signs of backwardness — were actually the ground of Haitian national culture. Price-Mars coined the concept of bovarysme collectif to name elite self-alienation and made one of the first serious modern arguments that Vodou is a religion deserving rigorous ethnographic study rather than dismissal, turning folklore, proverb, and oral tradition into an archive of national sovereignty.