Island Possessed by Katherine Dunham

Island Possessed

Katherine Dunham

287 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction religion informative slow-paced

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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, ...

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