Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System
Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System
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Abstract
This book explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. Working against conventional scholarship, the book argues that Hoodoo emerged first in three distinct regions it calls “regional Hoodoo clusters” and that after the turn of the nineteenth century, Hoodoo took on a national rather than regional profile. The first interdisciplinary examination to incorporate a full glossary of Hoodoo culture, this book lays out the movement of Hoodoo against a series of watershed changes in the American cultural landscape. Throughout, the book distinguishes between “Old tradition Black Belt Hoodoo” and commercially marketed forms that have been controlled, modified, and often fabricated by outsiders; this study focuses on the hidden system operating almost exclusively among African Americans in the Black spiritual underground.
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- 1 Traditional Religion in West Africa and in the New World: A Thematic Overview
- 2 Disruptive Intersection: Slavery and the African Background in the Making of Hoodoo
- 3 The Search for High John the Conquer
- 4 Crisis at the Crossroads: Sustaining and Transforming Hoodoo’s Black Belt Tradition from Emancipation to World War II
- 5 The Demise of Dr. Buzzard: Black Belt Hoodoo between the Two World Wars
- 6 Healin’ da Sick, Raisin’ da Daid: Hoodoo as Health Care, Root Doctors, Midwives, Treaters
- 7 Black Belt Hoodoo in the Post–World War II Cultural Environment
- Postscript
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