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🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: VoodooA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: VOODOO XP: Expressive One-Shot Head Reenactment for VR TelepresenceInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The CrucibleThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Silver Bullet or Voodoo Statistics?Cited 429 times
- Go sideways: Dominican VudúA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Papa LegbaA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana.
Noun The spiritual beliefs of the Ewe/Fon of West Africa, practiced chiefly in Benin and in the south of Togo.
Noun Any sort of magical or irrational approach to a problem.
Noun One who practices voodoo; a native sorcerer.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Silver Bullet or Voodoo Statistics?
“VOODOO” DEATH
Ratings and Rankings: Voodoo or Science?
Voodoo Correlations Are Everywhere—Not Only in Neuroscience
Voodoo Institution or Entrepreneurial University? Spin-off Companies, the Entrepreneurial System and Regional Development in the UK
Independence in ROI analysis: where is the voodoo?
Voodoo Economics? Reviewing the Rational Choice Approach to Religion
Chemokine-leukocyte interactions. The voodoo that they do so well
🆕 Influential since 2022
VOODOO XP: Expressive One-Shot Head Reenactment for VR Telepresence
Metaproteomic analysis of King Ghezo tomb wall (Abomey, Benin) confirms 19th century voodoo sacrifices
Commercialization, Voodoo Ritual, and Use of the Endangered Hispaniolan Slider, Trachemys decorata, in Haiti: Implications for Conservation
Isak Dinesen’s weird voodoo novel
Chemical characterization of the crude extract of Sauromatum venosum (voodoo lily) and docking study with 12-O-acetylingol 8-tiglate for cytotoxicity testing in SaOS2 (osteoblastic osteosarcoma cells)
📚 Books worth reading
The CrucibleArthur Miller · 1953
Night ShiftStephen King · 1960
The Gangs of New OrleansHerbert Asbury · 1936
Plays (All My Sons / Crucible / Death of a Salesman / Memory of Two Mondays / View from the Bridge)Arthur Miller · 1957
The Magic of LoveBarbara Cartland · 1970
The Serpent and the RainbowWade Davis · 1985
Hadriana dans tous mes rêvesRené Depestre · 1988
Mama Lola. Voodoo in BrooklynKaren McCarthy Brown · 1991
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
- Dominican Vudú Dominican Vudú, or Dominican Voodoo (Spanish: Vudú Dominicano), popularly known as Las 21 Divisiones (The 21 Divisions), is a heavily syncretic religion…
- Papa Legba Papa Legba is a lwa, or loa, in West African Vodun and its diasporic derivatives (Dominican Republic Vudú, Haitian Vodou, Louisiana Voodoo, and Winti)…
- Voodoo doll A voodoo doll is an effigy that is typically used for the insertion of pins. Such practices are found in various forms in the magical traditions of many…
- Haitian Vodou in Cuba The religion of Haitian Vodou (Spanish: Vodú Haitiano) has been present in Cuba since at least the 18th century. It was transmitted to the island by Haitian…
- Louisiana Voodoo Louisiana Voodoo, also known as New Orleans Voodoo, was an African diasporic religion that existed in Louisiana and the broader Mississippi River valley…
- Voodoo in popular culture Popular culture has included various depictions of practices associated with different forms of voodoo, including Haitian Vodou and Louisiana Voodoo, and…
- Haitian Vodou drumming Vodou drumming and associated ceremonies are folk ritual faith system of henotheistic religion of Haitian Vodou originated and inextricable part of Haitian…
- African diaspora religions African diaspora religions, also described as Afro-American religions, are a number of related beliefs that developed in the Americas in various areas…