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THE SERPENT & THE RAINBOW : A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey Into the Secret Society of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis and Magic
de Davis, Wade
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Collectible - Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0671502476
- ISBN 13
- 9780671502478
- Librería
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Berkeley, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1986. First Edition, First Pinting . Hardcover. Collectible - Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/Fine w/faint creasing to front inner flap.Gift inscription to fEP. A chronicle of Canadian anthropologist Edmund Wade Davis' (1953 -) 1982 invetigation of two reported cases of zombis in Haiti. An anecdotal and personal account, it is record of the search for poisons and antidotes likely employed by witch doctors to induce a state of extremely low metabolic rate near clinical death
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
- 100 POCKETS
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 011269
- Título
- THE SERPENT & THE RAINBOW : A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey Into the Secret Society of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis and Magic
- Autor
- Davis, Wade
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Collectible - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition, First Pinting
- ISBN 10
- 0671502476
- ISBN 13
- 9780671502478
- Editorial
- Simon & Schuster
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1986
- Palabras clave
- Botany/Herbs/Anthrology/Spiritual/Voodoo/Haiti/Autobiography/Memoir
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