Kate Ramsey is a historian, and this University of Chicago Press book is the standing scholarly history of the legal repression of Haitian popular ritual, tracing colonial-era law through the postcolonial penal laws against sortileges, the United States occupation from 1915 to 1934, and the Catholic Church's anti-superstition campaign of 1941 to 1942. Its strength is that Ramsey documents this history from primary legal and archival records, giving a rigorously sourced account of how Vodou was legally targeted across successive regimes. Its limit is that it centers on the legal and political history of repression specifically, so a claim about Vodou's own theology or ritual practice needs a source focused on that content directly.
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Published by the University of Chicago Press as Kate Ramsey's academic legal and religious history of Vodou in Haiti, peer reviewed university press scholarship. NotesThe standing history of the legal repression of Haitian popular ritual, from the colonial period through the penal laws against sortileges, the United States occupation of 1915 to 1934, and the Catholic anti-superstition campaign of 1941 to 1942.
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AuthorKate Ramsey
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
Publication Year2011
Source Typeacademic monograph
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This source backs 38 claims across the atlas. As facts: 25 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 8 holds. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Religious Events, 19 claims: 12 well-attested, 5 holds, 2 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Articles, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
- Historical Figures, 4 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Regions, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- Religions, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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