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Davis, Wade.

Passage of darkness : the ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie / by Wade Davis. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1988. - 1 online resource (xx, 344 pages) : illustrations -

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-326) and index.

Introduction -- 1. The Historical and Cultural Setting -- 2. The Haitian Zombie -- 3. The Problem of Death -- 4. The Poison -- 5. The "Antidote" -- 6. Everything Is Poison, Nothing Is Poison: The Emic View -- 7. Zombification as a Social Process -- 8. The Bizango Secret Societies -- Conclusion: Ethnobiology and the Haitian Zombie.

Interdisciplinary in nature, this study reveals a netowrk 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 denegrate an entire people and their religion.


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This edition in English.

ISBN: 9780807842102 0807842109 9780807887585 0807887587

LCCN:

Nat. Bib. No.: C89-5480-0 890054800 can

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: (AMICUS)000007616076

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Zombiism--Haiti.
Bizango (Cult)
Tetrodotoxin--Physiological effect.
Medicine--Religious aspects.
Culture.
Poisons.
Religion and Medicine
Culture
Poisons
Tetrodotoxin--poisoning
Zombies--Haïti.
Bizango (Culte)
Tétrodotoxine--Effets physiologiques.
Médecine--Aspect religieux.
Culture.
Poisons.
culture note.
poison.
culture (concept)
RELIGION--Ethnic & Tribal.
Poisons
Medicine--Religious aspects
Culture
Bizango (Cult)
Manners and customs
Tetrodotoxin--Physiological effect
Zombiism
Sozialanthropologie
Zombie
Het Bovennatuurlijke.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Haiti--Religious life and customs.
Haiti--Social life and customs.
Haiti
Haiti--ethnology
Haïti--Vie religieuse.
Haïti--Moeurs et coutumes.
Haiti
Haiti

Subjects--Index Terms: Secret. Zombies. Culture. Society. Poison. Death. Social life. Customs. Religious life. Cult.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Ethnography.

LC Class. No.: BL2530.H3 / D37 1988

Dewey Class. No.: 299/.65

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WB 50 DH2 / D265p 1988