Guest of the ilb 2003
Laennec Hurbon was born in Jacmel, Haiti. He
studied Theology and Sociology in Paris and is a founding member and
professor of Quisqueya University in Port-au-Prince, as well as a
scientist at the Paris CNRS. He has written several
socio-anthropological works on subjects including Haitian voodoo and
slavery, among them 'Le barbare imaginaire' (1988) and 'Pour une
sociologie d’Haiti au XXIe siècle' (2001).
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