Authentic Haiti
Glick, Nathan
often a pref savane (bush priest) will recite Catholic prayers during a vodoun service. One is reminded of the isolated farmers of south Italy described in Carlo Levi's Christ Stopped at Eboli who...
...His respect for language parallels and confirms his respect for the people and the culture he is describing...
...Physically, too, the book is a thing of beauty for which, in an age of shoddy bookmaking, designer Adrian Wilson and the University of California Press deserve some kind of award...
...An additional delight of the book is Harold Courlander's style...
...Like the ninety photographs included (most of them his own), his writing is direct, precise, economical, never arty or pretentious or journalistic...
...It is one of the virtues of The Drum and the Hoe that it constantly suggests new ways of looking at alien cultures...
...One is reminded of the isolated farmers of south Italy described in Carlo Levi's Christ Stopped at Eboli who combined with no sense of discord pagan and Catholic rituals...
Vol. 25 • May 1961 • No. 5
