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4 of 4 people found the following review helpfulA valuable resource with shortcomingsBy Sharon Yoffe on August 6, 2010Format: PaperbackAfter spending much time in Haiti doing what could be called an informal anthropological study of vodou ritual I became throughly obsessed with the veves I would watch voodou practitioners draw with powdered chalk. I looked high and low for some sort of an encyclopedic work which documented the veves in their great beauty and variety - VE-VE is just such a book. It is large and elegantly formatted and also quite comprehensive. As a picture book I give it 5 out of 5 stars. Unfortunately the text is full of buzzwords and is written with a vaguely arroganttone. The chapter on chemistry is laughable to anyone who has taken even a highschool class in chemistry, the word "hydroxyl" is misspelled and mistaken for water when in fact a hydroxyl group is what characterizes an alcohol. Pseudo-science and buzzwords aside the text contains some interesting material and is worth, at the very least, skimming.Comment Was this review helpful to you?YesNo4 of 4 people found the following review helpfulA quite interesting bookBy Szabó Tamás on February 2, 2009

Format: PaperbackThis book, I was waiting so long to get it. It contains nearly 300 different veves. Even some not well known ones. In the brief introduction section its try toexplain the parts of the veves (symbols what a veve contain). Everybody should have a copy, who wants to dig himself deep into the world of the Lwa.Comment Was this review helpful to you?YesNo3 of 3 people found the following review helpfulLooking for a book of Ve-Ve?By T. McKeever on April 29, 2009Format: Paperback Verified PurchaseI being a bit of a symboligist and I'm always looking for books on the subject.

And if you have the same interest and are looking for a book on Voudou with almost every Ve-Ve you'll ever want. This is the book for you. Rigaud explains all the different parts of a Ve-Ve and their meaning. This book is also trilingual. Meaning it's in English, French and Spanish. And is not a book for amateurs who's only exposure to Voudou is what they've seen in movies. Definitely a mystic esoteric look at the subjectComment Was this review helpful to you?YesNo4 of 5 people found the following review helpfulDisappointingBy Green Stone on February 22, 2012Format: Paperback Verified Purchase

To me, much of the beauty of VouDou (VooDoo, Voudon) is that it is untainted bythe dessicating forces of the Western Intellect. In this work, those very destructive forces are used to attempt to "explain" VouDou in a way that I feel does more harm than good. The work may please those who come from a Kabbalistic perspective. To me though it feels like a work that, perhaps unintentionally, seeks to appropriate someone else's or another culture's religion or magical system anduse it to enliven their own, which might be on the verge of dying as a result of the application of too much reason and dry intellect.

Also I think the Veves could have been presented more attractively. Each is pres

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ented in a large size on a full page: I don't believe that these need a full page, in fact they would probably be more attractive if represented smaller. I have seen many reproductions of VouDou Veves that looked much more attractive than these do.

The one benefit of this book is that it contains so many Veves, and will be a useful collection, particularly as many of these might be hard to see representedelsewhere.1 Comment Was this review helpful to you?YesNo2 of 2 people found the following review helpfulfantasticBy K. Florival on July 23, 2011Format: Paperback Verified PurchaseThis book id amazing never have I seen so many veves so clearly documented! I only wish the book were longer. The amount of veves is HUGE and the book is worthevery penny!Comment Was this review helpful to you?YesNo1 of 1 people found the following review helpfulLove the bookBy Shy Violet on September 7, 2014

Format: Paperback Verified PurchaseLove the book, just wish there would have been a hard cover available. I got a break in the binding as soon as I opened it enough to check out a veve. Wonderful book, just crossing my fingers that the binding on the soft cover holds up.