Vaudou : l'homme, la nature et les dieux : Bénin

Description

What can the threefold perspective of doctor, archaeologist and anthropologist bring to voodoo? Philippe Charlier has been criss-crossing the tracks of Benin for almost fifteen years. He has acquired enough material, data and experience to offer this immersive and analytical account. As well as showing and explaining that voodoo is a religion in its own right, with its own codes, clergies, myths and domestic and collective rituals, it takes a fresh, incisive, pragmatic and original look at this belief - and its associated acts of 'witchcraft' - in its territory of origin, sub-Saharan Africa.