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Mules and men / Zora Neale Hurston ; with a preface by Franz Boas ; a foreword by Arnold Rampersad ; an afterword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; and illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias.
Van Pelt Library GR111.A47 H86 2008
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hurston, Zora Neale.
- Series:
- Harper Perennial modern classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Louisiana--Folklore.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Florida--Folklore.
- Tales--Louisiana.
- Tales.
- Vodou.
- Louisiana.
- Tales--Florida.
- Vodou--Louisiana.
- African Americans--Florida.
- Florida.
- African Americans--Louisiana.
- African Americans--Florida--Music.
- African Americans--Louisiana--Music.
- Genre:
- Music.
- Folklore.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 309, 32 pages : illustrations, music ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper Perennial, 2008.
- Contents:
- Folk tales
- Hoodoo
- Glossary
- Appendix: I. Negro songs with music ; II. Formulae of Hoodoo doctors ; III. Paraphernalia of conjure ; IV. : Prescriptions of root doctors
- Chronology
- In search of Zora Neale Hurston / Alice Walker
- Wrestling with Mules and men : the story behind the book.
- Notes:
- Originally published: J.B. Lippincott, c1935.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-302).
- ISBN:
- 9780061350177
- 0061350176
- OCLC:
- 190964184
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