Island Possessed

Island Possessed
ISBN-10
0226171132
ISBN-13
9780226171135
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
280
Language
English
Published
1994-06-25
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Katherine Dunham

Description

Katherine Dunham began her love affair with Haiti during her first visit in 1936 as a graduate researcher in dance and anthropology. Island Possessed reconnects her with this love, bringing to life personal sketches of political figures, market women, peasants, children, even gods. Dunham tells how the island came to be possessed by the demons of voodoo and other cults imported from various parts of Africa, as well as by the deep class divisions and the political hatred still very much in evidence today.

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