A traditional gathering in Haiti and other Caribbean communities where people work together on a community project, sharing food and labor.
From Haitian Creole and other Caribbean French dialects, possibly from Spanish 'combido' (invited) or Portuguese 'combidado.' Reflects African and Creole traditions of communal labor.
Combites preserve ancient traditions of collective work—anthropologists study them as living examples of how West African communities reorganized labor after enslavement!
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