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Passage of darkness : the ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie / by Wade Davis.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1988.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 344 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780807842102
  • 0807842109
  • 9780807887585
  • 0807887587
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Passage of darkness.DDC classification:
  • 299/.65 22
LOC classification:
  • BL2530.H3 D37 1988
NLM classification:
  • WB 50 DH2
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 73.80
  • LC 30640
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Contents:
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.
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Summary: 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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)552011

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

Print version record.

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This edition in English.

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.