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Witchcraft, mysticism and magic in the Black world / James Haskins.
LIBRA - Rare BF1566 .H375 1974 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haskins, James, 1941-2005, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Witchcraft.
- Magic.
- Black people--Religion.
- Black people.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 156 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : map ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974.
- Contents:
- The New Wave of Mysticism-And the Old
- The Roots in Africa
- Witchcraft, Mysticism and Magic in Slavery Times
- Witchcraft, Mysticism and Magic in the Black World Today
- Three Legendary Figures of Witchcraft, Mysticism and Magic.
- Notes:
- Jacket design by Lydia Rosier.
- Jacket photo by Lisa Little is of a Mask used by the Poro Society in Ngere, Liberia.
- Endpapers: photograph by Lisa Little is of a figure of a Royal Ancestor, carved in wood, from Bangwa Tribe, Cameroon.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-149) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Haskins, James, 1941-2005. Witchcraft, mysticism, and magic in the Black world.
- ISBN:
- 0385028784
- 9780385028783
- 0385096577
- 9780385096577
- OCLC:
- 858258
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