Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie
In 1982, Harvard-trained ethnobotanist Wade Davis traveled into the Haitian countryside to research reports of zombies--the infamous living dead of Haitian folklore. A report by a team of physicians of a verifiable case of zombification led him to try to obtain the poison associated with the process and examine it for potential medical use.
Interdisciplinary in nature, this study reveals a network of power relations reaching all levels of Haitian political life. It sheds light on recent Haitian political history, including the meteoric rise under Duvalier of the Tonton Macoute. By explaining zombification as a rational process within the context of traditional Vodoun society, Davis demystifies one of the most exploited of folk beliefs, one that has been used to denigrate an entire people and their religion.
Author: Wade Davis
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 05/27/1988
Pages: 365
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.2lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.91w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780807842102
About the Author
Wade Davis has studied the zombie phenomenon extensively. He is author of "The Serpent and the Rainbow," a chronicle of his experiences in Haiti while trying to locate the zombie poison.
Interdisciplinary in nature, this study reveals a network of power relations reaching all levels of Haitian political life. It sheds light on recent Haitian political history, including the meteoric rise under Duvalier of the Tonton Macoute. By explaining zombification as a rational process within the context of traditional Vodoun society, Davis demystifies one of the most exploited of folk beliefs, one that has been used to denigrate an entire people and their religion.
Author: Wade Davis
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 05/27/1988
Pages: 365
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.2lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.91w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780807842102
About the Author
Wade Davis has studied the zombie phenomenon extensively. He is author of "The Serpent and the Rainbow," a chronicle of his experiences in Haiti while trying to locate the zombie poison.
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