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Conjure in African American Society /

From black sorcerers' client-based practices in the antebellum South to the postmodern revival of hoodoo and its tandem spiritual supply stores, the supernatural has long been a key component of the African American experience. What began as a mixture of African, European, and Native American i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Anderson, Jeffrey E., 1974-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2007.
Edición:Louisiana pbk. ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The invisible conjurer : the disappearance of hoodoo from conceptions of Black society
  • Vodu and minkisi : the African Foundation of Black American magic
  • Witches and medicine men : European and Native American building blocks of hoodoo
  • The conjurers' world : the social context of hoodoo in nineteenth-century Black life
  • The conjurers themselves : performing and marketing hoodoo
  • Conjure shops and manufacturing : changes in hoodoo into the twentieth century
  • The magic continues : hoodoo at the turn of the twenty-first century
  • Conclusion: The importance of conjure in African American society.