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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hazzard-Donald, Katrina, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hoodoo (Cult).

Vodou--United States.

Vodou.

African American magic.

Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric--United States.

Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.

African Americans--Religion.

African Americans.

African Americans--Folklore.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana [Ill.] : University of Illinois Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Katrina Hazzard-Donald explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. Working against conventional scholarship, Hazzard-Donald argues that Hoodoo emerged first in three distinct regions she calls oregional Hoodoo clusters - and that after the turn of the 19th century, Hoodoo took on a national rather than regional profile.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781283868297

1283868296

9780252094460

0252094468

OCLC:

823710278