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

• Autore: Hazzard-Donald Katrina <1948->
• Pubblicazione: Urbana [Ill.], : University of Illinois Press, c2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Disciplina: 133.4308996073
• Soggetto topico: Hoodoo (Cult); Vodou - United States; African American magic; Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric - United States; African Americans - Religion; African Americans - Folklore
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mojo workin
• ISBN: 1-283-86829-6; 0-252-09446-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779365003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II