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Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
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January 26, 2018
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January 28, 2018
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Betsy
Jan 28, 2018 rated it really liked it
Zora Neale Hurston produced an anthropological/personal narrative out of what she learned of voodoo beliefs during a series of extended visits to the Caribbean in the 1930s. Based on numerous interviews, attendance at innumerable ceremonies, and an almost photographic recall of the many elements - including an encounter and photographing a female "zombie" - this book is striking, and quite possibly overwhelming, in its comprehensive detail. I found myself skimming the detailed descriptions searc ...more
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