Sources

Voodoo in Haiti

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General Reference

Divinity Atlas. "Voodoo in Haiti." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/voodoo-in-haiti.

APA Style

Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). Voodoo in Haiti. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/voodoo-in-haiti

BibTeX

@misc{divinityatlas-voodoo-in-haiti,
  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {Voodoo in Haiti},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/voodoo-in-haiti},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Alfred Metraux was a leading anthropologist of his period and this is a classic mid-twentieth-century ethnography of Haitian Vodou, covering its cosmology, ritual and social role from his own direct fieldwork in Haiti. This record states its own honest limit: its terminology and some of its specific readings are now dated and have in places been superseded by later scholarship, Karen McCarthy Brown's Mama Lola among it, so a claim about contemporary Vodou practice should be checked against a more recent source. Use it for established mid-century ethnographic facts about Haitian Vodou as Metraux documented them; it is a period source, not the current state of scholarship on the tradition.

Facts

Assessment

Reliability Tier

Alfred Metraux's classic mid twentieth century ethnography of Haitian Vodou by a leading anthropologist of the period, covering its cosmology, ritual and social role; dated in its terminology and in places superseded by later scholarship such as Mama Lola, so a claim about contemporary practice should be checked against a more recent source.

Notes

A classic mid-twentieth-century ethnography of Haitian Vodou by a leading anthropologist of the period, covering its cosmology, ritual and social role. Use for established mid-century ethnographic facts about Haitian Vodou; dated in its terminology and in places superseded by later scholarship such as Mama Lola, so a claim about contemporary practice should be checked against a more recent source.

Citation

Author

Alfred Metraux

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Publication Year

1959

URL

https://archive.org/details/voodooinhaiti0000unse

Source Type

book

Claims Backed By This Source (77 claims)

This source backs 77 claims across the atlas. As facts: 50 well-attested, 1 popular myth - corrected, 1 open question. As cited relationships: 3 holds, 1 connected. Plus 21 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

Articles, 15 claims: 14 well-attested, 1 general references.
Open Questions, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
Holidays & Festivals, 6 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
Mythical Creatures, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 general references.
Subcategories, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 general references.
Religious Events, 5 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 popular myth - corrected, 1 holds, 1 general references.
Rituals, 5 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 holds, 2 general references.
Deities, 4 claims: 4 general references.
Religious Symbols, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
Doctrines, 2 claims: 2 general references.
Historical Figures, 2 claims: 1 open question, 1 general references.
Cities, 1 claims: 1 general references.
Regions, 1 claims: 1 general references.
Religions, 1 claims: 1 general references.
Religious Roles & Titles, 1 claims: 1 general references.
Sacred Objects & Ritual Items, 1 claims: 1 general references.