Tell my horse

Tell My Horse combines travel writing, ethnography and reportage from Hurston's research in Jamaica and Haiti in the 1930s. She describes customs, politics, social life and religious practice, including vodou, and records stories and beliefs she heard from the people she met. The tone moves between curiosity, humor and dry observation. The book shows her anthropological training at work and remains a notable, if sometimes debated, early account of Caribbean folk religion for English-language readers.