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The Serpent & the Rainbow
de Davis, Wade
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0671502476
- ISBN 13
- 9780671502478
- Librería
-
Tacoma, Washington, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Simon & Schuster, 1985 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 297 pages, glossary, annotated bibliography, index. Slight shelf wear, remainder mark on the lower edge..
Sinopsis
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 Serpent and the Rainbow combines anthropological investigation with a remarkable personal adventure to illuminate and finally explain a phenomenon that has long fascinated Americans.
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- Librería
- Else Fine Booksellers
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 002106
- Título
- The Serpent & the Rainbow
- Autor
- Davis, Wade
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0671502476
- ISBN 13
- 9780671502478
- Editorial
- Simon & Schuster
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1985
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