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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797904003321

Autore

Mocombe Paul Camy

Titolo

The Vodou ethic and the spirit of communism : the practical consciousness of the African People of Haiti / / Paul C. Mocombe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : University Press of America, Inc., , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-7618-6703-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (155 p.)

Disciplina

335.43097294

Soggetti

Communism - Haiti

Vodou - Haiti - Rituals

Haiti Religious life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Theorizing about the Constitution of Black Practical Consciousnesses in Haiti; 2 Phenomenological Structuralism; 3 A Phenomenological Structural Constitution of Modern Society; 4 A Phenomenological Structural Constitution of Haitian Society; 5 Conclusions; References Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Using a variant of structuration theory, what Paul C. Mocombe calls phenomenological structuralism, this work explores and highlights how the African religion of Vodou and its ethic gave rise to the Haitian spirit of communism and the "counter-plantation system" (Jean Casimir's term) in the provinces and mountains of Haiti.