ISBN:
9781558764552
Language:
English
Pages:
394 p
,
23 cm
Edition:
1st Markus Wiener publishers ed
DDC:
972.94
Keywords:
Vodou
;
Magic
;
Haiti Social life and customs
;
Mirebalais (Haiti)
;
Haiti
;
Wodu
Description / Table of Contents:
The African heritage -- What the slaves found in Haiti -- Working the amalgam -- The setting of Haitian life -- Birth, childhood, and adolescence -- Mating and marriage -- Property, wealth, and the family -- What is "voodoo"? -- Vodun worship : the service -- Vodun worship : the dance -- The cult of twins and of the dead -- Magic, good and bad -- Africa and Europe in Haitian life -- Catholicism and vodun -- Some wider implications.
Note:
Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
,
Originally published: New York ; London : A.A. Knopf, 1937
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
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