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Mojo workin' : the old African American Hoodoo system /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hazzard-Donald, Katrina, 1948-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana [Ill.] : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Hoodoo (Cult)
Vodou > United States.
African American magic.
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric > United States.
African Americans > Religion.
African Americans > Folklore.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Prescript
  • Traditional religion in West Africa and in the new world: a thematic overview
  • Disruptive intersection: slavery and the African background in the making of Hoodoo
  • The search for High John the Conquer
  • Crisis at the crossroads: sustaining and transforming Hoodoo's old black tradition from Emancipation to World War II
  • The demise of Dr. Buzzard: black belt Hoodoo between the two World Wars
  • Healin' da sick, raisin' da daid: Hoodoo as health care, root doctors, midwives, treaters
  • Black belt Hoodoo in the post-World War II cultural environment
  • Postscript.