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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
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Fascinating exploration of Haitian voodoo culture, told from a foreign perspective.
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challenging
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mysterious
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So the author, Wade Davis, a Harvard educated ethnobotanist travels to Haiti to investigate two reports of zombis, like legit zombis. In one case a man returns 18 years after he was declared dead and was buried, like in the ground. The second was a woman who returned 3 years after her burial and when they dug up the coffin it was full of rocks.
The book delves deeply into the voodoo religion itself, as well as the history of Haiti and its secret societies. It is about so much more than zombis. Davis never actually witnesses the exhumation of a zombi but he comes close, probably as close as any outsider ever dared to.
This book was truly fascinating. A total must-read for any zombi fanatic.
The book delves deeply into the voodoo religion itself, as well as the history of Haiti and its secret societies. It is about so much more than zombis. Davis never actually witnesses the exhumation of a zombi but he comes close, probably as close as any outsider ever dared to.
This book was truly fascinating. A total must-read for any zombi fanatic.
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A fantastic tale and an education dive into the history and culture of Haiti and the Guinean cultures from which it sprung. To me he most intriguing facet of belief was the idea that after death one's essence drifts into a sort of communal pool of psychic energy and that it is from this pool that the gods are created. This idea reveals the gods to be not divine constants here before humanity but rather universal archetypes of humanity. Erzulie, the voudon goddess of love, would not be the inventor of love but instead the shared psychic energy of every lover to have lived. In this way "while the vodounist serves his gods, he also gives birth to them, and this is something that is never forgotten; as much as the spirit is the source of the flesh, so the flesh gives rise to the spirit."
It's a fantastically humanist approach to religion.
It's a fantastically humanist approach to religion.
3,5. Początkowo cała opowieść brzmiała jak przygody Indiany Jonesa, ale jak zobaczyłam, że powstała w latach 80-tych, to zrozumiałam, że ten reportaż był pisany w innej konwencji. Fajnie się czytało, dużo informacji o kulturze ludowej w Haiti, ale w pewnym momencie książka stała się ciut przydługa. Mimo tych kompozycyjnych niedociągnięć, uważam, że warto po nią sięgnąć - czytałam ją w wakacje niczym horror.
adventurous
dark
informative
mysterious
slow-paced