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Original Title:	Divine Horsemen: Living Gods of Haiti
ISBN:	0914232630 (ISBN13: 9780914232636)
Edition Language:	English

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Includes photographs and drawings. Foreword by Joseph Campbell This is the classic, intimate study, movingly written with the special insight of direct encounter, which was first published in 1953 by the fledgling Thames & Hudson firm in a series edited by Joseph Campbell. Maya Deren's Divine Horsemen is recognized throughout the world as a primary source book on the culture and spirituality of Haitian Voudoun. The work includes all the original photographs and illustrations, glossary, appendices and index. It includes the original Campbell foreword along with the foreword Campbell added to a later edition.

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Title	:	Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
Author	:	Maya Deren
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 366 pages
Published	:	October 1st 1985 by McPherson (first published 1953)
Categories	:	Religion. Nonfiction. Anthropology. Spirituality. History

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Divine horsemen : the living gods of Haiti by Maya. Deren (1983)

An interesting look at Haitian Vodou beliefs. This book not only details the major lwa (spirits) and the structure of worship, but also attempts to explain the roots of Vodou belief and how Vodou continues to inform/shape Haitian culture. Definitely worth a read if you enjoy learning about religions and/or Haiti.

This book is very well written. I enjoyed the documentary based on the book,too. I found it to be a bit too academic and a bit boring in some parts. I am struggling to finish the last few chapter as it started out good but not as good towards to the end. Don't know if I'll bother.

More than sixty years after its initial publication, Deren's study of Haitian Voudoun remains a justifiable classic of ethnographic methodology. With unwavering respect for the reality of the religion's assertions for its practitioners, she skillfully demystifies the rituals and meanings of Voudoun - a task which, sadly, remains as necessary today as it was in 1953. Her artistically inflected recollection of personal observation and participatory experience, informed by then-current

Maya Deren rocked up in Haiti in 1947 with eighteen crates of video equipment and a plan to film some local dances. At the age of 30, she had already won the Grand Prix Internationale at Cannes, and had just divorced her second husband. No time to lose, this one. Now she wanted to do something different, something related to her love of choreography and ethnographic research.What she found in Haiti was what a lot of her bright, restless, arty friends in the US were looking for a complete,

Even if this were just a straightforward overview of Haitian Voudoun, it would be amazing. Maya Deren obviously did a vast amount of research to accompany her "fieldwork" in Haiti, which included becoming an accepted member of a Haitian village. She knows what she's talking about. In addition to this are her incredibly intelligent observations of how Voudoun shapes each Haitian village, the differences between "primitive" and "modern" religions and how that changes its society and vice versa.

Part of my issue with this book is that it did not teach me about CNF, and we were all crabby about it in class. It reads like a dictionary of voodoo tradition, which is interesting but the style and tone of the book is DULL!