03090nam 2200697 a 450 991077936500332120200520144314.01-283-86829-60-252-09446-8(CKB)2550000000707517(EBL)3414172(SSID)ssj0000783792(PQKBManifestationID)11464991(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000783792(PQKBWorkID)10760553(PQKB)10386386(StDuBDS)EDZ0000649288(OCoLC)823710278(MdBmJHUP)muse25132(Au-PeEL)EBL3414172(CaPaEBR)ebr10634380(CaONFJC)MIL418079(OCoLC)923496595(MiAaPQ)EBC3414172(EXLCZ)99255000000070751720120518d2013 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrMojo workin'[electronic resource] the old African American Hoodoo system /Katrina Hazzard-DonaldUrbana [Ill.] University of Illinois Pressc20131 online resource (250 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-252-07876-4 0-252-03729-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Hoodoo (Cult)VodouUnited StatesAfrican American magicMedicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiricUnited StatesAfrican AmericansReligionAfrican AmericansFolkloreHoodoo (Cult)VodouAfrican American magic.Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiricAfrican AmericansReligion.African AmericansFolklore.133.4308996073Hazzard-Donald Katrina1948-1015553MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779365003321Mojo workin3848909UNINA