Vodou sources?

[Morlock]

I'm looking for good sources on Vodou. The west African thing, not the new world thing. I read the Wikipedia article, but I'm looking for more detail, preferably something closer to the historical sources than something sensationalized. Game books or otherwise.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Sadly, I don’t have any good pointers, but if you’re looking to avoid sensationalized works, steer clear of Wade Davis (of Serpent and the Rainbow fame).

 

[Morlock]

I've been fairly cursory with my web searches so far, but so far the problem seems to be that books seem to fall into one of 3 categories:

1. Spellbooks and the like for believers.
2. Sensationalistic stuff.
3. Apologetics.

I don't want the kind of fluff publishers sell to the kind of people who believe in this stuff. I don't want the sensationalistic stuff, which seems to focus on the new world, in any event. I don't want the whitewashed "'splain it to the Christians/Westerners" stuff.

Guess I'm going to have to up my research game for this one. Thanks for the tip about Davis.

I might just have to bite my lip and go with the old, slaver- and abolitionist-distorted sources.

 

[pickin_grinnin]

Go with anthropological monographs and other scholarly sources.