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Living with Zombies

As an example of what an investigation of a “life with concepts” might look like in anthropology, this chapter offers a close look at what a “life with zombies” is in Haiti. By drawing on ethnographic details as well as literary texts, it asks what it would mean, and why it is important, for anthropology to give a realistic account of the lives of others. The figure (concept) of the zombie is interesting because it deeply challenges us, and thus requires a re-examination of the relation between thought and reality. The questions about what it is to describe a form of life, and how we are to do such a thing with tact, are the driving force of this essay.