Reading Assignment 9

Order Description For this assignment, please read the article "The Secrets of Haiti's Living Dead", which can be found here: https://www.iupui.edu/~anthkb/e445/readings/delguercio.pdf (Links to an external site.) This article details the study of the Haitian practice of creating zombies (not the zombies from the Walking Dead). Specifically look for how beliefs regarding death can be used as a form of social control. Once you have read the article, please answer these questions: 1) What is the general "procedure" for creating zombies in Haiti? 2) What is the purpose of creating zombies? 3) How does the Haitian attitude towards death work to the advantage of the people who practice voodoo? 4) In what way does the practice of creating zombies work to socially control the populace of rural Haiti?