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The serpent and the rainbow / Wade Davis.

Title
The serpent and the rainbow / Wade Davis.
Author
Davis, Wade
Publication
New York : Warner Books, 1987, c1985.

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Description
371 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 18 cm.
Summary
A Harvard scientist's astonishing journey into the secret societies of Haitian voodoo, zombis, and magic.
Subject
  • Davis, Wade
  • Zombiism > Haiti
  • Bizango (Cult)
  • Tetrodotoxin > Physiological effect
  • Datura stramonium
  • Pharmacopoeias > Haiti
  • Haiti > Description and travel
  • Haiti > Religious life and customs
  • Haiti > Social life and customs
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Reprint. Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1985.
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 339-355.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The jaguar -- "The frontier of death" -- The Calabar hypothesis -- White darkness and the living dead -- A lesson in history -- Everything is poison, nothing is poison -- Columns on a blackboard -- Voodoo death -- In summer the pilgrims walk -- Tell my horse -- Dancing in the lion's jaw -- Sweet as honey, bitter as bile -- Epilogue.
ISBN
  • 0446343870 (pbk.) :
  • 0446343889 (Can.) :
OCLC
  • 15356628
  • SCSB-10432968
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library