Voodoo: Search for the Spirit

by Laënnec Hurbon

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810928574
• ISBN13: 9780810928572
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

A fine researcher

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.

A Wealth of Information

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.

This book was complete and concise in its picture of Haiti.

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.

Super info without Hollywood hype

Beautiful color photography encompassing rites, sigils and practitioners. Documentation and historical facts interwoven with colorful descriptions of all of the above and more.