One of my great Ph.D. students, she is. Zombies have been in the news a lot recently. Almost everywhere you look there's a zombie! My own contribution to this was the line “I'd rather be a zombie than a tree hugger” but perhaps I would modify that now to say “I'd rather be a zombie AND a tree hugger.” I was playing with Haraway's line “I'd rather be a cyborg than a goddess.”
In this post, Zombies Rising, I use Google's Ngram viewer to track the occurence of zombie, voodoo, and loa, over the past century. The zombie line lags below the voodoo line until early in this century. Now the zombie line is continuing up while voodoo is down. Does that mean zombies have broken away from voodoo?
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