Life in a Haitian valley
By: Melville J. Herskovits ; with an introduction by Sidney W. Mintz.
Contributors: Mintz, Sidney Wilfred, 1922-
Edition: 1st Markus Wiener publishers ed.
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781558764552
Subjects: Voodooism; Magic -- Haiti; Haiti -- Social life and customs; Mirebalais (Haiti)
Notes: Originally published: New York ; London : A.A. Knopf, 1937.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The African heritage; title: What the slaves found in Haiti; title: Working the amalgam; title: The setting of Haitian life; title: Birth, childhood, and adolescence; title: Mating and marriage; title: Property, wealth, and the family; title: What is "voodoo"?; title: Vodun worship : the service; title: Vodun worship : the dance; title: The cult of twins and of the dead; title: Magic, good and bad; title: Africa and Europe in Haitian life; title: Catholicism and vodun; title: Some wider implications.