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Hurston, Zora Neale. author.
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Vodou -- Haiti.
Vodou -- Jamaica.
Haiti -- Description and travel.
Jamaica -- Description and travel.
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Tell my horse : vood...
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Tell my horse : voodoo and life in Haiti and Jamaica / Zora Neale Hurston ; with a new foreword by Ishmael Reed ; series editor: Henry Louis Gates.
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Hurston, Zora Neale. author.
New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2009.
Subjects
Vodou -- Haiti.
Vodou -- Jamaica.
Haiti -- Description and travel.
Jamaica -- Description and travel.
ISBN:
9780061695131 (paperback) :
0061695130 (paperback)
Series:
Harper Perennial modern classics.
Description:
viii, 311, 16 pages : illustrations, music ; 21 cm.
Edition:
1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics ed.
Contents:
pt. I. Jamaica. The rooster's nest -- Curry goat -- Hunting the wild hog -- Night song after death -- Women in the Caribbean -- pt. II. Politics and personalities of Haiti. Rebirth of a nation -- The next hundred years -- The black Joan of Arc -- Death of Leconte -- pt. III. Voodoo in Haiti. Voodoo and voodoo gods -- Isle de la Gonave -- Archahaie and what it means -- Zombies -- Secte rouge -- Parlay cheval ou (tell my horse) -- Graveyard dirt and other poisons -- Doctor Reser -- God and the Pintards -- Appendix. Songs of worship to voodoo gods -- Miscellaneous songs.
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The author recounts her experiences as an initiate into the voodoo practices of Haiti and Jamaica in the 1930s.
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Hawaii State Library
Social Science & Philosophy
299.675 Hu
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05/22/2024
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