Conjure in African American society /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2005]
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The invisible conjurer : the disappearance of hoodoo from conceptions of Black society
- Vodu and minkisi : the African Foundation of Black American magic
- Witches and medicine men : European and Native American building blocks of hoodoo
- The conjurers' world : the social context of hoodoo in nineteenth-century Black life
- The conjurers themselves : performing and marketing hoodoo
- Conjure shops and manufacturing : changes in hoodoo into the twentieth century
- The magic continues : hoodoo at the turn of the twenty-first century
- Conclusion: The importance of conjure in African American society.