Jean Price-Mars

haiti, indigenism, ethnology, ainsi parla l'oncle, negritude

Born Oct 15, 1876

Pétion-Ville, Haiti

Passed Away Mar 01, 1969 Pétion-Ville, Haiti

Lifespan 92 years old

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"We have no chance of being ourselves unless we do not repudiate any part of our ancestral heritage."

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Pioneering Haitian physician, ethnologist, diplomat, and intellectual father of the Haitian Indigenist movement, author of 'Ainsi parla l'oncle'.

Biographical Record

Dr. Jean Price-Mars was a seminal Haitian intellectual, physician, and diplomat whose 1928 masterwork 'Ainsi parla l'oncle' (So Spoke the Uncle) catalyzed the Haitian Indigenist movement and influenced the international Négritude renaissance.

Reacting against the cultural elite's eurocentrism during the US military occupation, Price-Mars urged Haitians to embrace their African heritage, traditional folklore, Creole language, and Vodou religion with intellectual pride.

He served as Rector of the State University of Haiti and Ambassador to France, celebrated as the ideological mentor to Aimé Césaire and Léopold Sédar Senghor.

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Pétion-Ville Cemetery
Pétion-Ville, Haiti

                         GPS: 18.5125, -72.2853                    

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