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

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Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, 2013.

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Location	Call No.	Status	Notes
Libraries Electronic Books	ELECTRONIC BOOK-eBook Academic Collection - North America	AVAIL. ONLINE

Description	x, 234 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series	eBook Academic Collection - North America
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-225) and index.
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.
Access	License restrictions may limit access.
Subject	Hoodoo (Cult)
	Vodou -- United States.
	African American magic.
	Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric -- United States.
	African Americans -- Religion.
	African Americans -- Folklore.
Added Author	eBook Academic Collection - North America
ISBN	9780252037290 (cloth : alk. paper)
	9780252078767 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	9780252094460 (electronic)
OCLC #	sseb_ssj0000783792

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