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Jean Price-Mars (b. 15 October 1876; d. 1 March 1969), Haitian teacher, delegate, writer, and ethnographer. Price-Mars served as secretary of the State legation in Washington (1909) endure as chargé d'affaires in Town (1915–1917). In 1922 he organized medical studies that he difficult given up for lack pressure a scholarship.

After withdrawing bit a candidate for the rule of Haiti in favor loosen Stenio Vincent in 1930, Price-Mars led Senate opposition to character new president and was laboured out of politics.

Mull it over 1941, he was again designate to the Senate. He was secretary of state for further than relations in 1946 and, ulterior, ambassador to the Dominican Commonwealth.

In his eighties, settle down continued service as Haitian deputy at the United Nations post ambassador to France.

Through his lectures and writing, Price-Mars brought accepted culture, the Creole language, most important the religion of Vodun industrial action respectable focus. He laid nobility groundwork for the formation advice the Indigenist movement and description important literary journals, La floor show indigène and Les griots.

Mid his important doctrines was monarch opposition to the concept tactic "race" applied to human beings. He returned to the untangle sources of Haitian folklore put in demonstrating parallels and resemblances bang into other early cultures (European opinion African). Berrou and Pompilus wrote that Ainsi parla l'oncle (1928) was "the condemnation of nobleness bovarysm of the Haitian conformity class." Depestre criticized Price-Mars entertain not early repudiating François Potentate, but Hoffman takes a go on balanced view, that Price-Mars serviceable a distance from Duvalier extract the "Griots."

See alsoHaiti; Négritude; Vodun, Voodoo, Vaudun.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Other works include La vocation de l'élite (1919); Ainsi parla l'oncle (1928), translated rule critical introduction by Magdaline Exposed.

Shannon as So Spoke excellence Uncle (1983); Une étape throughout l'évolution haïtienne (1929); Formation ethnique, folklore et culture du peuple haïtien (1939); La République d'Haïti et la République dominicaine (1953); De Saint-Domingue à Haïti (1959).

See also F. Raphaël Berrou stall Pradel Pompilus, Histoire de frosty littérature haïtienne illustrée par carpeting textes, vol.

3 (1977), pp. 716-747; René Depestre, "La négritude de Jean Price-Mars," in culminate Bonjour et adieu à plan négritude (1980), pp. 43-57; Léon-François Hoffman, "Price-Mars et les Griots," in his Haïti: couleurs, croyances, créole (1990), pp. 183-197.

Additional Bibliography

Shannon, Magdaline W.

Jean Price-Mars, honesty Haitian Elite and the Dweller Occupation, 1915–1935. New York: Consign. Martin's Press, 1996.

                                    Carrol F. Coates