A Ponder

[bcholmes]

Why aren't zombi stories cultural appropriation?

Comments

[sabotabby]

Don't zombies exist in a bunch of different cultures?

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

Do they? If so, that's news to me.

[sabotabby]

Well, there's the Haïtian zombi, but I'm also thinking of the Golem, revenants, and so on. Though they aren't called "zombies."

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

Golems aren't anything like zombies or revenants. They're not built from corpses and they don't have anything to do with the dead.

[sabotabby]

Fair enough. Though shambling people made out of mud are just plain cool, I suppose they have more in common with Frankenstein's monster than zombies.