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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779365003321

Autore

Hazzard-Donald Katrina <1948->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-283-86829-6

0-252-09446-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Disciplina

133.4308996073

Soggetti

Hoodoo (Cult)

Vodou - United States

African American magic

Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric - United States

African Americans - Religion

African Americans - Folklore

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.