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The mysterious voodoo queen, Marie Laveaux : a study of powerful female leadership in nineteenth-century New Orleans / Ina Johanna Fandrich.

By: Series: Studies in African American history and culturePublisher: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 329 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781135872922
  • 1135872929
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mysterious Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveaux : A Study of Powerful Female Leadership in Nineteenth Century New Orleans.DDC classification:
  • 299.6/75/092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • BL2490 .F53 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- The African cultural and religious roots of voodoo -- New Orleans' free women of color -- New Orleans' voodoo women -- The historical Marie Laveaux -- The mythical Marie Laveaux -- Conclusion: the politics of myth-making.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 18, 2016).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-321) and index.

Introduction -- The African cultural and religious roots of voodoo -- New Orleans' free women of color -- New Orleans' voodoo women -- The historical Marie Laveaux -- The mythical Marie Laveaux -- Conclusion: the politics of myth-making.

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