Serpent and the Rainbow

Name: Serpent and the Rainbow
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ISBN: 9780684839295

ISBN-10: 0684839296

ISBN-13: 9780684839295

Edition: 1997

Authors: Wade Davis

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In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis -- people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of rituals and celebrations, Davis penetrated the vodoun mystique deeply enough to place zombification in its proper context within vodoun culture. In the course of his investigation, Davis came to realize that the story of vodoun is the history of Haiti -- from the African origins of its people to the successful Haitian independence movement, down to the present day, where vodoun culture is, in effect, the government of Haiti's countryside. The…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 8/5/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Wade Davis was named one of the Explorers for the Millennium by the National Geographic Society. He is an anthropologist and ethnobotanist whose books include the international bestsellerThe Serpent and the Rainbow. K. David Harrison is a linguist whose work with endangered languages is receiving national attention. He conducts expeditions to remote places around the world in his study of global language loss.