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Pinkster: An Atlantic Creole Festival in a Dutch-American Context
- Journal of American Folklore
- American Folklore Society
- Volume 126, Number 501, Summer 2013
- pp. 245-271
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This article argues that Pinkster should be understood as an Atlantic Creole festival in a Dutch-American context, rather than a Dutch-African festival in an American context. It claims that the syncretic character of Pinkster did not originate in North America and that, before arriving on the American East Coast, the essence of what came to be known as Pinkster already existed as a culturally hybrid Luso-African celebration.