This article looks at the relationship between Haitian vodou, sound recording, and migration. I argue that Haitian vodou has a special relationship with technologies of sound, understood in Jonathan Sterne's sense of media as embodiments of social desire. There is a parallel between vodou possession and the practice of pwen (throwing verbal insults), on the one hand, and, on the other, the tape recorder's ability to manifest a person through the sound of his or her voice, making him or her present both in Haiti for the Haitian vodou congregation and in the diasporic land, thus bridging the separation across oceans and time. This transnational character underscores how Haitian vodou, which has been much maligned and often misunderstood, is an incredibly flexible and adaptive religion, necessary as a means of cultural survival for citizens of one of most economically disadvantaged nations, harshly subject to insertion in global neo-liberal labour markets.

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海地巫毒和迁移的声音

本文着眼于海地巫毒、录音和迁移之间的关系。我认为海地巫毒与声音技术有着特殊的关系，在乔纳森·斯特恩（Jonathan Sterne）的媒体意识中被理解为社会欲望的体现。巫毒的占有和巫毒的实践有相似之处普文（辱骂），一方面，另一方面，录音机通过声音表现一个人的能力，使他或她既出现在海地的海地巫毒会众中，也出现在流散的土地，从而弥合了跨越海洋和时间的分离。这种跨国特征凸显了海地巫毒教这个饱受诟病并经常被误解的宗教，是一种极其灵活和适应性强的宗教，是经济最弱势国家之一的公民的文化生存手段所必需的，并受到全球新宗教的严厉打击。自由劳动力市场。