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The SERPENT and the RAINBOW by DAVIS, WADE - 1985

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The SERPENT and the RAINBOW by DAVIS, WADE - 1985

The SERPENT and the RAINBOW

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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. HB - 1st. Print - FINE/FINE (note: remainder stamp on bottom block) - 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... .
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  • Edition 1st Edition
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  • ISBN 10 0671502476
  • ISBN 13 9780671502478
  • Publisher Simon and Schuster
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1985
  • Keywords Hardcover - 1st. Print - Anthropology - Sociology - Drugs - Zombies

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Simon & Schuster, New York, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Dust Jack in mylar guard. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science & Technology; Botany; Haiti; ISBN: 0671502476. ISBN/EAN: 9780671502478. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 7725. . 9780671502478
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The Serpent and the Rainbow A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey Into the Secret Society of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis and Magic

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THE SERPENT & THE RAINBOW : A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey Into the Secret Society of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis and Magic

by Davis, Wade

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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
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