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