TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davis,Wade
TI  - Passage of darkness: the ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie 
SN  - 9780807887585
AV  - BL2530 .P377 1988
PY  - 1988///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Zombiism
KW  - Haiti
KW  - Bizango (Cult)
KW  - Tetrodotoxin
KW  - Physiological effect
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Culture
KW  - Poisons
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - Interdisciplinary in nature, this study reveals a netowrk of power relations reaching all levels of Haitian political life. It sheds light on recent Haitian political history, including the meteoric rise under Duvalier of the Tonton Macoute. By explaining zombification as a rational process within the context of traditional Vodoun society, Davis demystifies one of the most exploited of folk beliefs, one that has been used to denegrate an entire people and their religion
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