Un cercueil dans la cour : des funérailles évangéliques dans une famille transnationale haïtienne
While Haitian vodou funerals have been studied extensively by anthropologists, little is known about how they are organized and carried out by evangelical families and churches. This article offers a detailed case study of an evangelical funeral in the mountains of southwestern Haiti, in a family wi...
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| description | While Haitian vodou funerals have been studied extensively by anthropologists, little is known about how they are organized and carried out by evangelical families and churches. This article offers a detailed case study of an evangelical funeral in the mountains of southwestern Haiti, in a family with many members of the diaspora. The first part details the ritual, from the treatment of the corpse to the burial service. The second part offers an analysis of the funerals, and in particular the conflicts that have arised as a result of two broader social dynamics: the religious change in the country, with the massive conversion of rural populations to Evangelical and Pentecostal Protestantism, and the migrations, which fled to most Haitian families having at least one member living abroad. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-590ecae91911466c812174811d9a8f4a2022-12-22T03:54:43ZengSociété des américanistesJournal de la Société des Américanistes0037-91741957-78422021-09-01107194310.4000/jsa.19310Un cercueil dans la cour : des funérailles évangéliques dans une famille transnationale haïtienneNadège MéziéWhile Haitian vodou funerals have been studied extensively by anthropologists, little is known about how they are organized and carried out by evangelical families and churches. This article offers a detailed case study of an evangelical funeral in the mountains of southwestern Haiti, in a family with many members of the diaspora. The first part details the ritual, from the treatment of the corpse to the burial service. The second part offers an analysis of the funerals, and in particular the conflicts that have arised as a result of two broader social dynamics: the religious change in the country, with the massive conversion of rural populations to Evangelical and Pentecostal Protestantism, and the migrations, which fled to most Haitian families having at least one member living abroad.http://journals.openedition.org/jsa/19310Haitifuneralsevangelical churcheskinshipdiasporaconflicts |
| spellingShingle | Nadège Mézié Un cercueil dans la cour : des funérailles évangéliques dans une famille transnationale haïtienne Journal de la Société des Américanistes Haiti funerals evangelical churches kinship diaspora conflicts |
| title | Un cercueil dans la cour : des funérailles évangéliques dans une famille transnationale haïtienne |
| title_full | Un cercueil dans la cour : des funérailles évangéliques dans une famille transnationale haïtienne |
| title_fullStr | Un cercueil dans la cour : des funérailles évangéliques dans une famille transnationale haïtienne |
| title_full_unstemmed | Un cercueil dans la cour : des funérailles évangéliques dans une famille transnationale haïtienne |
| title_short | Un cercueil dans la cour : des funérailles évangéliques dans une famille transnationale haïtienne |
| title_sort | un cercueil dans la cour des funerailles evangeliques dans une famille transnationale haitienne |
| topic | Haiti funerals evangelical churches kinship diaspora conflicts |
| url | http://journals.openedition.org/jsa/19310 |
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