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

Title
Passage of darkness : the ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie / by Wade Davis.
Author
Davis, Wade
Publication
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1988.

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Description
xx, 344 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Uniform Title
Anthropology online.
Subject
  • Culture
  • Religion and Medicine
  • Zombiism > Haiti
  • Bizango (Cult)
  • Tetrodotoxin > Physiological effect
  • Poisons
  • Tetrodotoxin > poisoning
  • Haiti
  • Haiti > Religious life and customs
  • Haiti > Social life and customs
  • Haiti > ethnology
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 303-326.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 0807817767 (alk. paper)
  • 0807842109 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^87040537^
OCLC
  • 16978983
  • SCSB-10203264
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library