Description
Gaunt faces and bodies staggering through cities: in the Western imagination, zombies strike fear into the heart and serve as an outlet for the most crude or far-fetched anxieties and fantasies.
These undead, whose homeland is Haiti, fascinate and worry us, while arousing our curiosity. Who are they? Where do they come from? Do they even exist? With his dual perspective as forensic pathologist and anthropologist, Philippe Charlier investigated in Haiti, interviewing voodoo priests, attending funerals and examining patients considered to be zombies. As a result of these encounters, we discover the key role played by a fearsome poison in the process of 'making' these beings between two worlds, as well as a whole Caribbean and African imaginary around death and the body.
Characteristics
Author : Philippe Charlier
- Number of pages
- 224
- Publication date
- 11/05/2023
- Dimensions
- 18 cm x 12 cm x 1.5 cm
- Publisher
- Tallandier
- Categories
- Exhibition & catalogues, Exhibition - Zombis. Death is not the end ?