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Island Possessed
Just as surely as Haiti is "possessed" by the gods and spirits of vaudun (voodoo), the island "possessed" Katherine Dunham when she first went there in 1936 to study dance and ritual. In this book, Dunham reveals how her anthropological research, her work in dance, and her fascination for the people and cults of Haiti worked their spell, catapulting her into experiences th...more
Paperback, 287 pages
Published
June 25th 1994
by University Of Chicago Press
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Great personal ethnography
Found this unfortunately unreadable...just couldn't make my way through the "English" in which this was supposedly written. I gave up after about 10 pages.
Fantastic writing. I may be slightly biased since the author is my godmother, but it's enlightening and gives a picture of Hatian culture.
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was an American dancer, choreographer, songwriter, author, educator and activist who was trained as an anthropologist. Dunham had one of the most successful dance careers in American and European theater of the 20th century and has been called the "Matriarch and Queen Mother of Black Dance".[1]
During her heyday in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, she was renowned throughout Europe and Latin America as La G...more
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