The contributors to Passages and Afterworlds explore death and its rituals across the Caribbean, drawing on ethnographic theories shaped by a deep understanding
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Exploring the subject through many different theoretical frameworks and epistemological traditions, this book confronts the history of Haiti's three major pract
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