The Full Zombie

A comprehensive exploration of the cultural history, science, and ethics of the Haitian zombie

Zombies in Hollywood and Pop Culture

White Zombie (1932)
The first Hollywood attempt at a zombie movie

King of the Zombies (1941)
Nine years passed before Hollywood revisited zombies, but this time the Nazis were involved!

Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Perhaps the most famous zombie movie, by George Romero

A List of Zombie Movies
If not comprehensive, this list at least proves Hollywood has seldom tried to portray the Haitian zombie.

How Zombies Work
An easy introduction to the broad topic of both pop and Haitian zombies.

Zombie in Wikipedia
You were going to check there anyway, weren’t you?

Zombies
by James Dilworth

Scared to Death
by Dr. Suzanne LaCombe

Books, Academic Treatises,
and Research on Zombies

Haiti, History, and the Gods
by Joan Dayan, University of California Press

Are Zombies Logically Possible? And Why It Matters
by William Seager, University of Toronto at Scarborough

Clinical findings in three cases of zombification, The Lancet (PDF)
Roland Littlewood, Chavannes Douyon

How Zombies Work
by Tracy V. Wilson

Self-Ascription Without Qualia: A Case-Study
by David J. Chalmers

Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie
by Wade Davis. Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press. 1988
Review by Bob Corbett March, 1990

Zombies: The Haitian Penal Code
by James Dilworth

Why and How We Are Not Zombies
Journal of Consciousness Studies 1: 164-167. (Presented at Royal Society/Association of British Sciences Writers Press Conference on "Consciousness: Its Place in Contemporary Science" Tuesday 7 February 10am - 12:50 am at the Royal Society)

You Think I Therefore Am?: The Ethnobiology and Ethics of the Haitian Zombie
by Jakki Rowlett

Zombies May Not Be What They’re Reputed To Be
from The Doctor's Guide, in response to The Lancet article

Documentaries and TV Coverage

Zombie
A 70-minute documentary from Journeyman Features

Supernatural Science — Buried Alive
The first of six clips from a documentary from BBC Learning

Wade Davis

www.amazon.com/Passage-Darkness-Ethnobiology-Haitian-Zombie/dp/0807842109

www.amazon.com/Serpent-Rainbow-Scientists-Astonishing-Societies/dp/0684839296

www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/bookreviews/davis1.htm

www.ted.com/index.php/talks/wade_davis_on_the_worldwide_web_of_belief_and_ritual.html

www.ted.com/index.php/talks/wade_davis_on_endangered_cultures.html

Haitian Culture, Religion, and History

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_mythology

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Vodou