Download or read book Haiti in Perspective Orientation Guide and Cultural Orientation Geography History Economy Religion Customs Duvalier Vodou Voodoo Aristide Catholicism Port Au Prince Windward Passage written by U. S. Military and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two unique guides produced by the Department of Defense provide comprehensive information about all aspects of life in Haiti, with a special emphasis on geography, history, the economy, society, security and military matters, religion, traditions, urban and rural life, ethnic groups, crime, the environment, government, holidays, gender issues and much more.CHAPTER 1: GEOGRAPHY * Introduction * Geographic Regions and Topographical Features * Mountains * Plains * Islands * Bodies of Water * Climate * Major Cities * Port-au-Prince * Cap-Haitien * Gonaives * Les Cayes * Jeremie * Environmental Issues * Natural Hazards * Chapter 1 Assessment * CHAPTER 2: HISTORY * Introduction * Early History * Columbus Arrives in the Caribbean * The French Gain a Foothold * Pearl of the Antilles * The Slaves Revolt * Toussaint Louverture and the End of Slavery * The Fight for Independence * Post-independence Struggles * Haiti in the 19th Century * Haiti and the United States * "Papa Doc" Duvalier * "Baby Doc" Duvalier * Jean-Bertrand Aristide * Aristide's Second Presidency * Preval's Second Presidency * The 2010 Earthquake * Chapter 2 Assessment * CHAPTER 3: ECONOMY * Introduction * Industry * Agriculture * Cash Crops * Food Crops * Forestry, Fishing, and Livestock * Energy and Natural Resources * Trade * Services and Tourism * Banking and Finance * Standard of Living * Employment Trends * Future Outlook * Chapter 3 Assessment * CHAPTER 4: SOCIETY * Ethnicity and Social Order * The Haitian Upper Class * The Haitian Middle Class * The Haitian Lower Class * Languages * Haitian Creole * French * Religion * Catholicism and Protestantism * Vodou * Cuisine * Traditional Dress * Gender Issues * Arts * Literature * Oral Traditions * Music * Dance * Visual Arts * Sports and Recreation * Chapter 4 Assessment * CHAPTER 5: SECURITY * Introduction * U.S.-Haiti Relations * Relations with Neighboring Countries * Dominican Republic * Cuba * The Bahamas * Military * Police Force * Issues Affecting Stability * International Presence * Drug Trafficking * Politics * Crime Rates and Rule of Law * Water and Food Security * Environment and Natural Disasters * HIV/AIDS * CHAPTER 1: PROFILE * Introduction * Geography * Major Cities * Port-au-Prince * Cap-Haitien * Gonaives * Les Cayes * Jeremie * Bodies of Water * Windward Passage * Golfe de la Gonave * Rivers * Lakes * Topographical Features * Mountains * Islands * Regions * Important Elements of History * Arrival of Columbus * The French Move In * Struggle for Freedom and Independence * Post-independence Slump * The United States Takes Control * The Duvalier Years * Ongoing Challenges * Government * Executive Branch * Legislative Branch * Judicial Branch * Media and Communications * Economy * Ethnicity and Language * Chapter 1 Assessment * CHAPTER 2: RELIGION * Overview * Religions * Roman Catholicism * Vodou * Vodou and Catholicism * Religion and Government * Places of Worship * Vodou Practices * Behavior in Places of Worship * Catholic Celebrations * Vodou Celebrations * Rara * Pilgrimages * All Souls' Day * Chapter 2 Assessment * CHAPTER 3: TRADITIONS * Introduction * Values and Communication Styles * Politeness and Etiquette * Male/Female Interactions * Dress Codes and Grooming * Gift Giving and Social Etiquette * Food and Drink * Public Holidays * Dos and Don'ts * Chapter 3 Assessment * CHAPTER 4: URBAN LIFE * CHAPTER 5: RURAL LIFE
Download or read book Culture and Customs of Haiti written by J. Michael Dash and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-10-30 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture and Customs of Haiti begins with an overview of the mountainous island that seemed forbidding to European colonizers. Historical periods, including French colonization, U.S. occupation in the early 20th century, Independence and the Duvaliers' reigns, until today, are reviewed and provide the framework for the volume. A chapter on the people and society details the pride of the black state that managed the only successful slave revolution in history. The extremes of society from the elite to the peasantry and slum dwellers are depicted, along with Haitians in diaspora. Religion in Haiti, with the strong amalgamation of Roman Catholicism and vaudou, a West African import, is then explained. A Social Customs chapter notes the joy that is found in such an economically depressed culture. The media and literature and language chapters necessarily unfold in the context of Haiti's political history. A section on writing in Creole is especially intriguing. Finally, chapters on the performing arts and visual arts evoke the energy and color of the people in such forms as vaudou jazz and dance, contemporary rara rock, and the folkloric influence on Haitian painting. A chronology and glossary supplement the text.
Download or read book Haiti written by Roseline NgCheong-Lum and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2005 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the geography, history, government, economy, people, and culture of Haiti"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Voodoo in Haiti written by Andre J. Louis and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Republic of Haiti is a fascinating country of contrast where are joined together tradition and illiteracy, high religion and folk religion, light and darkness. It is a country ravaged by poverty and afflicted by a considerable social backwardness where people live in a constant fear of a heavy and gloomy threat which impregnates every fiber of the society in which they live: that of Voodoo. Through this captivating work, Dr. Andre J. Louis translates us into a world that most ordinary people would never even imagine the existence of such occultism where superstition, sorcery, magic, spiritism, divination, and animism combine all their strength in order to set up the background of the daily life of each Haitian, which, unfortunately, overwhelms him with a heavy weight of fear, economic bondage and uncertainty regarding his future."
Download or read book Haiti written by Kerry A. Graves and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the geography, history, economy, culture, and people of Haiti.
Download or read book Roots of Haiti s Vodou Christian Faith written by R. Murray Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the development of Haiti's combined Vodou-Christian religion from 1500 to the present and explains how this combination of distinct faiths coalesces in a coherent belief system. What are the historical reasons for the popularity of two contradictory worldviews in Haiti, Vodou and Catholicism? What elements of Vodou and Catholicism are alike, and how are they drastically different? What is the connection between indigenous African religions and Vodou? And why has religion in Haiti evidenced an accelerating rate of change in recent decades? Roots of Haiti's Vodou-Christian Faith: African and Catholic Origins answers these questions and more in its examination of the highly unique and often-misunderstood religious practices in Haiti. Reaching back half a millennium to the European conquest of the island of Haiti, author R. Murray Thomas inspects the origins and nature of these two competing and complementary religious traditions: the traditional African faiths brought by the slaves who were imported to Haiti to labor in the fields and mines, and the Catholicism promoted—often violently—by Spanish and French colonial authorities. Following a historical background, the subsequent chapters focus on the organization of Haitian religion, spirits, creation belief, causes and ceremonies, maxims and tales, symbols and sacred objects, sacred sites, religious societies, and the future of the Vodou-Christian faith.
Download or read book The Faces of the Gods written by Leslie G. Desmangles and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vodou, the folk religion of Haiti, is a by-product of the contact between Roman Catholicism and African and Amerindian traditional religions. In this book, Leslie Desmangles analyzes the mythology and rituals of Vodou, focusing particularly on the inclusion of West African and European elements in Vodouisants' beliefs and practices. Desmangles sees Vodou not simply as a grafting of European religious traditions onto African stock, but as a true creole phenomenon, born out of the oppressive conditions of slavery and the necessary adaptation of slaves to a New World environment. Desmangles uses Haitian history to explain this phenomenon, paying particular attention to the role of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century maroon communities in preserving African traditions and the attempts by the Catholic, educated elite to suppress African-based "superstitions." The result is a society in which one religion, Catholicism, is visible and official; the other, Vodou, is unofficial and largely secretive.
Download or read book Haiti in Pictures written by Margaret J. Goldstein and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history, government, economy, people, geography, and cultural life of Haiti.
Download or read book Voodoo and Politics in Haiti written by Michel S. Laguerre and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only does this book give a well-researched account of the politicization of Haitian Voodoo and the Voodooization of Haitian politics, it also lays the ground for the development of creative policies by the state vis-a-vis the cult. It is an indispensable research tool for the students of Afro-American, Caribbean and African societies in particular, and for religionists and political scientists in general.
Download or read book The Spirits and the Law written by Kate Ramsey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vodou has often served as a scapegoat for Haiti’s problems, from political upheavals to natural disasters. This tradition of scapegoating stretches back to the nation’s founding and forms part of a contest over the legitimacy of the religion, both beyond and within Haiti’s borders. The Spirits and the Law examines that vexed history, asking why, from 1835 to 1987, Haiti banned many popular ritual practices. To find out, Kate Ramsey begins with the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath. Fearful of an independent black nation inspiring similar revolts, the United States, France, and the rest of Europe ostracized Haiti. Successive Haitian governments, seeking to counter the image of Haiti as primitive as well as contain popular organization and leadership, outlawed “spells” and, later, “superstitious practices.” While not often strictly enforced, these laws were at times the basis for attacks on Vodou by the Haitian state, the Catholic Church, and occupying U.S. forces. Beyond such offensives, Ramsey argues that in prohibiting practices considered essential for maintaining relations with the spirits, anti-Vodou laws reinforced the political marginalization, social stigmatization, and economic exploitation of the Haitian majority. At the same time, she examines the ways communities across Haiti evaded, subverted, redirected, and shaped enforcement of the laws. Analyzing the long genealogy of anti-Vodou rhetoric, Ramsey thoroughly dissects claims that the religion has impeded Haiti’s development.
Download or read book Healing in the Homeland written by Margaret Mitchell Armand and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Mitchell Armand presents a cutting edge interdisciplinary terrain inside an indigenous exploration of her homeland. Her contribution to the historiography of Haïtian Vodou demonstrates the struggle for its recognition in Haïti’s post-independence phase as well as its continued misunderstanding. Through a methodological, original study of the colonial culture of slavery and its dehumanization, Healing in the Homeland: Haitian Vodou Traditions examines the sociocultural and economic oppression stemming from the local and international derived politics and religious economic oppression. While concentrating the narratives on stories of indigenous elites educated in the western traditions, Armand moves pass the variables of race to locate the historical conjuncture at the root of the persistent Haïtian national division. Supported by scholarships of indigenous studies and current analysis, she elucidates how a false consciousness can be overcome to reclaim cultural identity and pride, and include a sociocultural, national educational program, and political platform that embraces traditional needs in a global context of mutual respect. While shredding the western adages, and within an indigenous model of understanding, this book purposefully brings forth the struggle of the African people in Haïti.
Download or read book Evangelicals Catholics and Vodouyizan in Haiti written by Celucien L. Joseph and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the subject through many different theoretical frameworks and epistemological traditions, this book confronts the history of Haiti's three major practicing religious faiths: Vodou, Roman Catholicism, and Protestant Evangelicalism. Scholars, researchers, and faith practitioners have often depicted relations between these traditions as antagonistic, conflicting, unproductive, and lacking in mutual understanding. With the aim of exploring the possibility of nation building in Haiti and the benefits of interreligious collaboration, contributors to this book consider topics such as the obstacles to interfaith dialogue, religious conflict, interreligious dialogue in schools, race and identity, and religious pluralism. This book will be beneficial to scholars, practitioners, historians, and sociologists of religion, as well as the religious communities themselves in Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora.
Download or read book Vodou and Christianity in Interreligious Dialogue written by Celucien L. Joseph and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vodou and Christianity in Interreligious Dialogue addresses both historical factors and ideological issues that created antagonism and conflict between Christians and Vodouists in Haiti. The book offers practical solutions and strategies to help create a harmonious and peaceful environment between religious practitioners associated with Vodou and Christianity. Toward this goal, this volume considers various perspectives and theories, such as autobiography, anthropology, ethnographic fieldwork, religious experience, and gender to examine the subject matter. This volume offers practical examples and resources on how to engage in interreligious dialogue and promote interreligious education in Haiti. There are three philosophical and practical ideas underlying this book project: (1) it is grounded on the belief that religion has value, and it could bring social goods to different communities and enhance human dignity and justice; (2) it is premised on the idea that dialogue and cooperation are necessary for nation-building and human development (as democratic ideals) and that one of the leading functions of the world’s religious traditions is to promote both cooperation and dialogue through mutual understanding and for the common good; and (3) that the power and public role of religion in society can be used as a major force of unification and peace-building among divergent factions and schools of thought, and to promote reconciliation, mutual respect, and friendship in the world.
Download or read book Haiti written by Charles Arthur and published by Latin America Bureau (Lab). This book was released on 2002 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Haiti in Focus" is an authoritative and up-to-date guide to this fascinating country. It explores the land, history and politics, economy, society and people, culture and environment, and includes tips on where to go and what to see.
Download or read book Area Handbook for Haiti written by Thomas E. Weil and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General study of Haiti - covers historical and geographical aspects, demographic aspects and social structures, religion, language, education, cultural factors, the political system, international relations, the economic structure, agriculture, industry, transport, trade, financing aspects, defence, etc. Bibliography pp. 159 to 178, maps and statistical tables.
Download or read book Haiti written by Debbie Nevins and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers will learn about the exciting and beautiful country of Haiti in this book. Everything from government, culture, geography, and trade is covered in these beautiful books. With a detailed table of contents and useful maps, Cultures of the World: Haiti is a wonderful look at a country different from our own. All books of the critically-acclaimed Cultures of the World® series ensure an immersive experience by offering vibrant photographs with descriptive nonfiction narratives, and interactive activities such as creating an authentic traditional dish from an easy-to-follow recipe. Copious maps and detailed timelines present the past and present of the country, while exploration of the art and architecture help your readers to understand why diversity is the spice of Life.
Download or read book Religion and Politics in Haiti written by Harold Courlander and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
