Zombies: An Anthropological Investigation of the Living Dead

Synopsis

Forensic Pathologist Philippe Charlier - Dubbed The Indiana Jones Of The Graveyards - Travels To Haiti Where Rumors Claim That Some Who Die May Return To Life As Zombies. Charlier Investigates These Far-fetched Stories And Finds That, In Haiti, The Dead Are A Part Of Daily Life. Families, Fearing That Loved Ones May Return From The Grave, Urge Pallbearers To Take Rambling Routes To Prevent The Recently Departed From Finding Their Way Home From Cemeteries. Corpses Are Sometimes Killed A Second Time...just To Be Safe. And A Person Might Spend Their Life Preparing Their Funeral And Grave To Ensure They Will Not Become A Wandering Soul After Death...zombies Follows Charlier's Journey To Understand The Fascinating And Frightening World Of Haiti's Living Dead, Inviting Readers To Believe The Unbelievable--back Cover. 1. Zombie: What Are We Talking About? -- 2. White Zombie -- 3. Laennec Hurbon -- 4. An Overview Of Haitian Vodou -- 5. First Haitian Cemetery -- 6. Max Beauvoir -- 7. Tetrodotoxin -- 8. My First Zombie -- 9. In Erol's Peristyle -- 10. On The Tomb Of Narcisse ... -- 11. Port-au-prince, Capital Of Death -- 12. Zombies At The Courthouse -- 13. Lodge Of The Zombies -- 14. Loubeau Funeral Home -- 15. Mireille The Mambo -- 16. National Bureau Of Ethnology -- 17. Other Zombies ... Dead Or Alive -- 18. Veve Drawings -- 19. In The Chamber Of Secrets ... -- Postface / Alain Froment -- Notes -- Appendixes -- 1. Similarities Between Loas Of Haitian Vodou And Catholic Saints -- 2. List Of Clinical Symptoms That Can Be Present In A Person Suffering From Acute Tetrodotoxin Poisoning (ttx). Philippe Charlier ; Translated By Richard J. Gray Ii. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 117-122)