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Zombies: the origins
Beyond the fantasies of the contagious living-dead in films and pop culture, this exhibition takes you back to the myth's origins to Haiti. There 鈥� concurrent with Voodoo culture 鈥� we encounter the zombie, an unrepentant criminal judged by a secret society and given a sentence worse than death. This figure has its roots in a complex association between religions from sub-Saharan Africa, cultures of the original peoples of the Caribbean, and the traumatisms of slavery. Discover the history of these little-known beliefs, still actually alive today.
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Beyond the fantasies of the contagious living-dead in films and pop culture, this exhibition takes you back to the myth's origins to Haiti. There 鈥� concurrent with Voodoo culture 鈥� we encounter the zombie, an unrepentant criminal judged by a secret society and given a sentence worse than death. This figure has its roots in a complex association between religions from sub-Saharan Africa, cultures of the original peoples of the Caribbean, and the traumatisms of slavery. Discover the history of these little-known beliefs, still actually alive today.
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