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Conjure in African American society
2005, Louisiana State University Press
in English
0807130923 9780807130926
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Table of Contents
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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