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Record ID marc_loc_updates/v36.i30.records.utf8:6696580:1430
Source Library of Congress
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LEADER: 01430cam a2200301 a 4500
001 2007033261
003 DLC
005 20080723092112.0
008 070815s2007 nju b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007033261
020 $a9781558764552 (pbk.)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $anwht---
050 00 $aF1927$b.H4 2007
082 00 $a972.94$222
100 1 $aHerskovits, Melville J.$q(Melville Jean),$d1895-1963.
245 10 $aLife in a Haitian valley /$cMelville J. Herskovits ; with an introduction by Sidney W. Mintz.
250 $a1st Markus Wiener publishers ed.
260 $aPrinceton :$bMarkus Wiener Publishers,$cc2007.
300 $axiv p. ;$c23 cm.
500 $aOriginally published: New York ; London : A.A. Knopf, 1937.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe African heritage -- What the slaves found in Haiti -- Working the amalgam -- The setting of Haitian life -- Birth, childhood, and adolescence -- Mating and marriage -- Property, wealth, and the family -- What is "voodoo"? -- Vodun worship : the service -- Vodun worship : the dance -- The cult of twins and of the dead -- Magic, good and bad -- Africa and Europe in Haitian life -- Catholicism and vodun -- Some wider implications.
651 0 $aHaiti$xSocial life and customs.
650 0 $aVoodooism.
650 0 $aMagic$zHaiti.
651 0 $aMirebalais (Haiti)
700 1 $aMintz, Sidney Wilfred,$d1922-