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Life in a Haitian valley /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963
Other Authors: Mintz, Sidney Wilfred, 1922-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Markus Wiener Publishers, [2007]
Edition:1st Markus Wiener publishers ed.
Subjects:
Haiti > Social life and customs.
Vodou.
Magic > Haiti.
Mirebalais (Haiti)
Table of Contents:
  • The African heritage
  • What the slaves found in Haiti
  • Working the amalgam
  • The setting of Haitian life
  • Birth, childhood, and adolescence
  • Mating and marriage
  • Property, wealth, and the family
  • What is "voodoo"?
  • Vodun worship : the service
  • Vodun worship : the dance
  • The cult of twins and of the dead
  • Magic, good and bad
  • Africa and Europe in Haitian life
  • Catholicism and vodun
  • Some wider implications.