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- Title
From Vaudoux to Voodoo.
- Authors
PETTINGER, ALASDAIR
- Abstract
The word vaudoux or vaudou, found in French-language accounts of colonial Saint-Domingue in, was borrowed by Anglophone writers from the 1850s, and eventually domesticated as voodoo by the 1880s. As an exercise in political etymology, this paper explores the pre-history of voodoo in English and suggests how far it might have a bearing on the continuing debates over what form to use when referring to Afro-Haitian religious beliefs and practices.
- Subjects
HAITI; SANTO Domingo (Dominican Republic); DOMINICAN Republic; VODOU; VODOU art &; symbolism; CULTS; HAITIAN social conditions
- Publication
Forum for Modern Language Studies, 2004, Vol 40, Issue 4, p415
- ISSN
0015-8518
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/fmls/40.4.415