Metraux, Alfred — Voodoo in Haiti (1959) Source Information

Metraux, Alfred — Voodoo in Haiti (1959) Source Information Author: Alfred Metraux Full Title: Voodoo in Haiti Original Publication: 1958 in French; 1959 English translation by Hugo Charteris Edition Used Here: Pickle Partners EPUB extraction with Sidney W. Mintz introduction Type: Secondary Source — ethnography, ritual description, historical synthesis, and classic Vodou reference work Location in Vault: research/secondary-sources/ Extracted Text: metraux voodoo epub.txt Status Text extracted: Yes — metraux voodoo epub.txt Review pass: Completed (2026-03-28) — core Vodou-system pass focused on ritual structure, priesthood, possession, initiation, and revolutionary memory Chapter notes: metraux voodoo ch notes Graph review in this pass: Created kanzo and veve; strengthened houngan, moc sources, and moc society culture Overview Voodoo in Haiti remains one of the vault's most important single-volume works on Vodou because it tries to describe the religion as a coherent system rather than a bundle of exotic scenes. Metraux moves across history, clergy, pantheon, possession, sacrifice, initiation, sorcery, death, and Catholic entanglement with enough breadth that many narrower notes in the vault still depend on him for baseline vocabulary and ritual sequence.