Fête des guédés: Between memory and representation

Each 1st and 2nd of November in Haiti, the tradition is that a lot of people flock to cemeteries in view of honoring the dead and also to attend exhibitions of Guedes, who are the spirits of the dead in the voodoo pantheon . Considered respectively as day of souls and the dead, this cultural practice and worship is highly prized by the voodoo community..

Le Nouvelliste
06 nov. 2015 — Lecture : 2 min.
It is a unique festival of its kind in which the existence of vaudouisants is externalized and remarks in a series of images that pass through individual consciences. To this end, it is an exogenous substance for the followers of this cult. Widely appreciated by tourists, residents, researchers, students and onlookers, the Guédés celebration is a key part of the collective memory of vaudouisants looking at these days to illustrate the practice that once existed in Dahomey. As such, the viewer participates in the process of survival and strength

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