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Mojo workin'

Hazzard-Donald, Katrina, 1948-

Mojo workin' the old African American Hoodoo system / [electronic resource] : Katrina Hazzard-Donald. - Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (256 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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African Americans--Folklore.
African Americans--Religion.
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric--United States.
African American magic.
Vodou--United States.
Hoodoo (Cult)


Electronic books.

BL2490 / .H39 2013

133.4308996073