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Vodou, Hoodoo & African Diasporic Religions

Voodoo in Haiti

by Alfred Métraux · Hugo Charteris (trans.)

The classic ethnography of Haitian Vodou by the Swiss anthropologist, based on fieldwork in the 1940s. It describes the lwa, the priesthood, ceremonies, possession and the social life of the ounfò, and remains a standard scholarly reference.

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