Mojo workin' [electronic resource] : the old African American Hoodoo system / Katrina Hazzard-Donald.
Material type: TextPublication details: Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)ISBN:- 9780252094460
- 133.4308996073 23
- BL2490 .H39 2013
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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