Largey — Vodou Nation — Chapter Notes Source file: largey vodou nation

Largey — Vodou Nation — Chapter Notes Source file: largey vodou nation Introduction: Musical Nationalism and the Haitian State Largey opens by framing Haiti's problem: how does a nation-state construct a national culture when its most distinctive cultural practices — vodou — have been criminalized by its own government under pressure from the Catholic Church and elite class prejudice? The introduction establishes that "musical nationalism" in Haiti was not a unified project but a contested field in which different classes, ideologies, and racial groups competed over the meaning of Haitian culture. Largey's framework draws on Benedict Anderson (imagined communities), Partha Chatterjee (nationalist thought and the colonial world), and Pierre Bourdieu (cultural capital).