Home›Sources›Deren, Divine Horsemen: The Voodoo Gods of Haiti (book), Vanguard Press, 1953SourcesDeren, Divine Horsemen: The Voodoo Gods of Haiti (book), Vanguard Press, 1953Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Deren, Divine Horsemen: The Voodoo Gods of Haiti (book), Vanguard Press, 1953." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/deren-divine-horsemen-voodoo-gods-of-haiti-book-1953.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Deren, Divine Horsemen: The Voodoo Gods of Haiti (book), Vanguard Press, 1953. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/deren-divine-horsemen-voodoo-gods-of-haiti-book-1953Copy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-deren-divine-horsemen-the-voodoo-gods-of, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Deren, Divine Horsemen: The Voodoo Gods of Haiti (book), Vanguard Press, 1953}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/deren-divine-horsemen-voodoo-gods-of-haiti-book-1953}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXMaya Deren's own ethnographic account of Haitian Vodou, published with an introduction by Joseph Campbell, and the text the 1981 film's narration was later adapted from. Its strength is unusually close access, written by someone the community had accepted far enough inside to be initiated during her research. Its limit is that Deren was an experimental filmmaker and participant rather than a trained anthropologist, so this entry cites it for the film's own origin and Deren's documented relationship to the tradition, not as a substitute for disciplinary ethnography.FactsClaims Backed By This Source (10 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested2Reliability tier 2: a trade nonfiction book from Vanguard Press, written by a practitioner and filmmaker who was herself an initiate of the tradition she documents, valuable as a firsthand account rather than an outside academic study.NotesWell-attestedConfirmed via multiple secondary accounts of the film's production history. While filming in Haiti between 1947 and 1954, Deren became initiated into Vodou; this entry names that fact and does not describe what the initiation involved, which is closed knowledge under the tradition's own restriction.CitationAuthorWell-attestedMaya DerenPublisherWell-attestedVanguard PressPublication YearWell-attested1953Source TypeWell-attestedbookClaims Backed By This Source (10 claims)This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicSources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.Screen Works, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.Well-attested9ArticlesA Filmmaker Who Was Initiated Before She Finished FilmingScreen WorksDivine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1981 Documentary)SourcesDeren, Divine Horsemen: The Voodoo Gods of Haiti (book), Vanguard Press, 1953General References1Screen WorksDivine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1981 Documentary)Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year