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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Katrina Hazzard-Donald |
| ISBN: | 9780252037290 0252037294 9780252078767 0252078764 9780252094460 0252094468 |
| OCLC Number: | 788272374 |
| Description: | x, 234 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Katrina Hazzard-Donald. |
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"A powerful reinterpretation of African American Hoodoo. This comprehensive volume will be an important tool for anyone interested in African American folk belief and the supernatural." Jerrilyn McGregory, author of Downhome Gospel: African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country Read more...
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