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Interesting travelogue and expose of voodooism in Jamaica and Haiti.
What a fascinating little book. I've owned it for decades, but never read it: was it from my time at Vintage? A book that was bought but cancelled for my ethnic studies degree at UCSD? Not sure. So glad I finally pulled it out and poured through it--because we're going to JAMAICA for honeymoon/Christmas! And this was a fascinating history/anthropological study of women, hunting, food, voodoo, and life in Jamaica in the mid-30s through that eyes of an African-American woman. We'll have to beware
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