Island Possessed

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Island Possessed

Author	: Katherine Dunham
File Size	: 45,8 Mb
Publisher	: University of Chicago Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 25 June 1994
ISBN	: 9780226171135
Pages	: 288 pages

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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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Island Possessed by Katherine Dunham

Just as surely as Haiti is "possessed" by the gods and spirits of vaudun (voodoo), the island "possessed" Katherine Dunham when she first went there in 1936 to study dance and ritual. In this book, Dunham reveals how her anthropological research, her work in dance, and her fascination for the people

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