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Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie

Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie

Wade Davis
The scientific investigation behind The Serpent and the Rainbow — the ethnobotany of Haitian zombie powder, Vodou pharmacology, and the boundary between death and not-death. Academic but riveting.
Culture & Place Ecology & Conservation Narrative Nonfiction Africa & Middle East
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Publisher University of North Carolina Press
Published 1988
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