Mojo workin' the old African American Hoodoo system /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana [Ill.] :
University of Illinois Press,
c2013.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10634380 |
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.