Passage of Darkness : The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie

Foreword xi Robert Farris Thompson Preface xvii Richard Evans Schultes Acknowledgments xix Introduction 1(14) The Historical and Cultural Setting 15(41) The Haitian Zombie 56(30) The Problem of Death 86(21) The Poison 107(59) The ``Antidote'' 166(15) Everything Is Poison, Nothing Is Poison: The Emic View 181(32) Zombification as a Social Process 213(28) The Bizango Secret Societies 241(44) Conclusion: Ethnobiology and the Haitian Zombie 285(6) Note on Orthography 291(2) Glossary 293(10) Bibliography 303(24) Index 327