Conjure in African American society
By: Jeffrey E. Anderson.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Hoodoo (Cult); Magic.; Voodooism -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The invisible conjurer : the disappearance of hoodoo from conceptions of Black society; title: Vodu and minkisi : the African Foundation of Black American magic; title: Witches and medicine men : European and Native American building blocks of hoodoo; title: The conjurers' world : the social context of hoodoo in nineteenth-century Black life; title: The conjurers themselves : performing and marketing hoodoo; title: Conjure shops and manufacturing : changes in hoodoo into the twentieth century; title: The magic continues : hoodoo at the turn of the twenty-first century; title: Conclusion: The importance of conjure in African American society.