A scientific investigation and personal adventure story about
zombis and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist.
In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to
investigate two documented cases of zombis--people who had
reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially
declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of
rituals and celebrations, Davis penetrated the vodoun mystique
deeply enough to place zombification in its proper context within
vodoun culture. In the course of his investigation, Davis came to
realize that the story of vodoun is the history of Haiti--from the
African origins of its people to the successful Haitian
independence movement, down to the present day, where vodoun
culture is, in effect, the government of Haiti's countryside.
"The Serpent and the Rainbow" combines anthropological
investigation with a remarkable personal adventure to illuminate
and finally explain a phenomenon that has long fascinated
Americans.
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