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Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti Paperback – October 1, 1983

by Maya Deren (Author), Joseph Campbell (Foreword)
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The result of vast fieldwork and personal research, and its findings are well and systematically drawn up at considerable length. --Times Literary Supplement

There are lessons to be learned about Voodoo the way Maya Deren makes you know about it. --Village Voice

More than thirty years have elapsed.... But her work...continues to move and inform. --Journal for the Society of Ethnomusicology

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Maya Deren's famous account of the Haitian deities, practitioners, and rituals of Voudoun was written with the special insight of personal encounter. In the foreword to this book, Joseph Campbell calls Divine Horsemen "the most illuminating introduction that has yet been rendered to the whole marvel of the Haitian mystres as 'facts of the mind.'" Deren had journeyed to Haiti to make a film ofritual dances; instead, she came to be accepted as a Voudoun initiate. Afterward, Deren undertook the writing of this book at the urging of Campbell and Gregory Bateson, and brought her entire aesthetic sensibility to bear in this profound study of "the total integrity of cultural form."

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ McPherson (October 1, 1983)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 350 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0914232630
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0914232636
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.76 x 1.08 x 8.36 inches
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Maya Deren's life is the subject of a multi-volume biography in progress titled "The Legend of Maya Deren". Born in Kiev in 1917, Maya Deren emigrated to the United States with her parents a few years later, growing up mainly in Syracuse, New York, where she attended Syracuse University. A social activist from her teens, she became interested first in dance and subsequently in filmmaking. Throughout the 1950s, until her premature death in 1961 at the age of 44, Maya Deren was a leading exponent of experimental cinema and considered one of its most influential artists. She first traveled to Haiti to film dances in 1947, and returned in following years for lengthy stays. The work in Haiti led to the classic ethnographic study, "Divine Horsemen", written with the encouragement of Joseph Campbell, as well as audio recordings and a documentary film which was later edited by Teiji and Cherel Ito. A two-hour documentary on Maya Deren and her work was produced for BBC television in 1987.

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