Price-Mars, Jean, 1876-1969

found: Shannon, M.W. Jean Price-Mars, the Haitian elite and the American occupation ... 1996.

found: Britannica academic edition online, Apr. 2, 2014(Jean Price Mars; b. Oct. 15, 1876, Grande Rivière du Nord, Haiti; d. Mar. 2, 1969, Port-au-Prince; Haitian physician, public official, diplomat, ethnologist, and historian; author of Ainsi parla l'oncle (1928), essays on Haitian folklore, and La République du Haïti et la République Dominicaine (1958); Haitian chargé d'affaires in Washington, D.C. 1908-1911; national inspector of public education, 1912-1915; minister to France, 1915-1916)

found: The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, accessed March 10, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Price-Mars, Jean; historian, diplomat, politician, physician, ethnographer; born 15 October 1876 in Grande Rivière du Nord, Haiti; enrolled in the National School of Medicine in Haiti; continued his medical studies in Paris (1899); held diplomatic positions in Germany and the United States; taught history, geography, and civics at the Lycée Pétion; published La Vocation de l'élite (The Vocation of the Elite) (1919); pursued an ethnological investigation of Haitian peasant culture that resulted in Ainsi Parla l'Oncle (So Spoke the Uncle), published in1928; this book gave birth to the social and literary movement known as the Indigenist Movement; founded the Institute of Ethnology (1941); died 01 March 1969 in Pétionville, Haiti)