Haiti: Africa

By The Public Archive | Published: February 22, 2010

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Jean Price-Mars avowedly sought to renovate and redeem Haiti precisely by prescribing the place of Africa within the nation. Price-Mars looked to history to understand what he saw as the historical processes involved in creating a unique Haitian being and ethnos.

Gérarde Magliore and Kevin A. Yelvington, “Haiti and the anthropological imagination,” Gradhiva (2005)  

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  1. By Surrealism and Haiti on December 3, 2011 at 9:28 pm

    [...] especially since one of the most intellectually and morally respected men, the learned ethnologist Dr. Prince-Mars [sic], has been elected to a key government [...]

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