Mojo Workin' The Old African American Hoodoo System / [Recurso electrónico] :
Katrina Hazzard-Donald.
- Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, 2013.
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
Libro Electrónico
9780252094460
African Americans--Folklore. African Americans--Religion. Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric--United States. African American magic. Vodou--United States. Hoodoo (Cult)