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Lauren Derby explores storytelling traditions between the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, focusing on shapeshifting spirit demons called baka/bacá as a way to reckon with a shared history of enslavement, colonialism, and exploitation.
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Keywords
- Bacás
- bovine bacá stories
- capitalist extractivism
- Clément Barbot
- conjuring
- cross border trade
- devil pact tales
- Dominican Republic
- feral animals
- fukú
- Haiti
- Haitian Vodou
- Hispaniola
- history of trauma
- hunting economy
- Rafael Trujillo
- shapeshifting sorcery
- spirit creatures
- spirit demons
- subsistence agriculture
- supernatural assault
- supernatural beasts
- swine flu
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology
- Vodú
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DOI: 10.1215/9781478061564Editions