The Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis audiobook

The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis, and Magic

By Wade Davis
Read by Sean Runnette

Tantor Audio

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • ISBN: 9798200254361

  • ISBN: 9798200254385

Runtime: 11.58 Hours
Category: Nonfiction/Body, Mind & Spirit
Audience: Adult
Language: English

Summary

Summary

A scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist.

In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis—people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of rituals and celebrations, Davis penetrated the vodoun mystique deeply enough to place zombification in its proper context within vodoun culture. In the course of his investigation, Davis came to realize that the story of vodoun is the history of Haiti—from the African origins of its people to the successful Haitian independence movement, down to the present day, where vodoun culture is, in effect, the government of Haiti's countryside.

The Serpent and the Rainbow combines anthropological investigation with a remarkable personal adventure to illuminate and finally explain a phenomenon that has long fascinated Americans.

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Author Bio: Wade Davis

Author Bio: Wade Davis

Wade Davis is the author of twenty books, including One River, The Wayfinders, and Into the Silence, which won the 2012 Samuel Johnson prize, the top award for literary nonfiction in the English language. Explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society from 1999 to 2013, he is professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia. In 2016, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2018 he became an honorary citizen of Colombia.

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Available Formats : Library CD, MP3 CD
Category: Nonfiction/Body, Mind & Spirit
Runtime: 11.58
Audience: Adult
Language: English