Voodoo: Truth and Fantasy

by Laënnec Hurbon and HURBON

Out of Africa came the cult of spirits who could enter human beings and cross the boundary between life and death. Carried across the Atlantic to the New World, voodoo gave the slaves in the West... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500300496
• ISBN13: 9780500300497
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

the best introduction to Vodou I've read

This is a great little book, crammed with beautiful illustrations and bookended with documents and advice for further reading on this fascinating subject. It begins with a concise history of Haiti and the evolution of Vodou on the island, taking in the shifting attitudes of the Church and the secular authorities towards it, and goes on to give an informative, readable account of the cosmology, belief-system and practises of the religion itself. It is wonderfully bereft of any patronising tendencies, and up-to-date in its sources. It's a book about Vodou, and not (tho it quotes some Vodou invocations) for (aspirant) practitioners of the religion, but is an excellent - and affordably priced - introduction.