Vodou

Priestesses, zombies, snakes, and swamps. Photographer Phyllis Galembo shows readers the human and divine faces and voices of real Haitian vodou--as it is still practiced today. Brilliant color photos are accompanied by captions and essays from experts in the field, skillfully woven together into a beautiful, personal, and intimate document of a fascinating and deeply misunderstood religion. Full color.

PHYLLIS GALEMBO is a photographer and professor of art at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She has had one-person exhibitions at the International Center of Photography and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. Galembo is also the author of Divine Inspiration from Benin to Bahia and Dressed for Thrills: 100 Years of Halloween and Masquerade Costumes.
Gerd?É‚Ä?s Fleurant is a professor of musicology at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He is also a practicing Vodou priest and the author of DANCING SPIRITS: RHYTHMS AND RITUALS OF HAITIAN VODOU, THE RADA RITE (Greenwood, 1996).