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Mojo workin' [electronic resource] : the old African American Hoodoo system / Katrina Hazzard-Donald.

By: Publication details: Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (x, 234 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780252094460 (electronic bk.)
  • 0252094468 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mojo workin'.DDC classification:
  • 133.4308996073 23
LOC classification:
  • BL2490 .H39 2013eb
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-225) 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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