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The Vodou Archive: Curating and Sharing the Sources of Vodou Religion and Culture
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The Archive of Haitian Religion and Culture: Collaborative Research and Scholarship on Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora will create a freely accessible multimedia digital library that uses audiovisual technologies to curate, elucidate and facilitate the advanced search of the rich primary materials of a central Haitian and Haitian-American spiritual tradition in order to promote discovery and educate a broad public. This collection provides content online for scholars and the public in the form of:
- Audiovisual content available as sound, photographic or video footage that will be transcribed, translated, subtitled and explicated
- Textual content available as facsimile, updated modernizations and translations
- Critical syntheses such as commentary, exegesis, etymology, etc., available in English
- New works obtained through the Digital Library of the Caribbean’s self-submission tool
University of Florida and Duke University researchers and librarians, led by project director Benjamin Hebblethwaite (UF) and co-director Laurent Dubois (Duke), with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), will support increased understanding of a central Haitian and Haitian-American spiritual tradition, the Vodou religion, by gathering the audiovisual and textual sources of communities, by interpreting the collected materials, by expanding the holdings through a self-submission tool, and by diffusing the knowledge via an open access digital library hosted within the existing Digital Library of the Caribbean.
The Vodou Archive: Curating and sharing the sources of Vodou religion and culture
-- by Benjamin Hebblethwaite
Duke Haiti Lab: Vodou Archive Research Trip to Gonaives, November 2012
-- by Eric Bartsow and Claire Payton
For more information, contact:
Benjamin Hebblethwaite
Assistant Professor in Haitian Creole, Haitian & Francophone Studies
University of Florida, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Email: hebble@ufl.edu
Home page for Haitian Creole & Haitian Studies: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/hebble/
