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| 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. |
| Local note | Little-348784--305131055462Z |
| Local note | Little-348784--305131055462Z |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-220) and index. |
| LCCN | 2005004333 |
| ISBN | 0807130923 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780807130926 (alk. paper) |
