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Discoveries: Voodoo: Search for the Spirit (Discoveries (Abrams)) | 
 enlarge | Author: Laennec Hurbon
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 593562
Media: Paperback
Pages: 176
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.9 x 0.5
ISBN: 0810928574
Dewey Decimal Number: 299.675
EAN: 9780810928572
ASIN: 0810928574
Publication Date: February 1, 1995
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Product Description
Dispelling numerous myths associated with the cultural phenomenon, a history of voodoo emphasizes recent political events in Haiti and the United States and their effects on practitioners in both countries, and offers insights into voodoo's belief systems and rituals. Original.
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Super info without Hollywood hype February 17, 1998
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Beautiful color photography encompassing rites, sigils and practitioners. Documentation and historical facts interwoven with colorful descriptions of all of the above and more.
This book was complete and concise in its picture of Haiti. August 27, 1999
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
If you want to know about the Voodoo religion, this book has a very clear summary of this religion. It also writes about the history of Haiti in a very clean and concise manner. And seems very true. It's not slanted or biased in any way. There are pictures of interest also. This book kept me involved in knowing Haiti's history page after page.
A Wealth of Information May 21, 2002
Nadine Seide (MIAMI, FL United States)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I did not know what to expect when I purchased this book. I needed a serious reference book to research Voodoo (or as I call it Vodou) in "my country" and I found it. This is a very smart and thoroughly researched and documented book that I highly recommend to anyone who has an intellectual curiosity of the Haitian Vodou culture.
For a good start !!! March 19, 2003
Lemich Drakkar (Lausanne, Suisse)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have found this book interesting, delivering a most valuable information about history, loas, voodoo practices and religion. The artistic and esthetic content is also of high interest. It provides actually also a contemporary information regarding the present status of this religion and presents the christian religion coming from the US as its bitter ennemy. We will probably never ascertain the importance of the direct influence of voodoo on the present political status of Haiti, but this boook underlines the negative influence of papa Doc and his "tonto macoutes" who used voodoo to justify at times their political system.
A fine researcher December 31, 2003
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Hurbon is a very fine academic and I always enjoy his well-researched books. For me, though, they do not go far enough because I would like to USE Vodou practice in my daily life. Hurbon is great on the history and traditions of Vodou but a better book for parctical information is Ross Heaven's Vodou Shaman. I'd suggest you read them both, although Hurbon's is the better for academic study.
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