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Island possessed / Katherine Dunham.
LIBRA F1916 .D8 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunham, Katherine, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dance--Anthropological aspects.
- Haiti--Social life and customs.
- Haiti.
- Manners and customs.
- Vodou.
- Dance--Anthropological aspects--Haiti.
- Dance.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 280 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994.
- Summary:
- "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."--Back cover.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Doubleday, 1969. Copyright ©1969 by Katherine Dunham.--verso of title page.
- ISBN:
- 0226171132
- OCLC:
- 29564326
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