The Resource Mojo workin' : the old African American Hoodoo system, Katrina Hazzard-Donald
Mojo workin' : the old African American Hoodoo system, Katrina Hazzard-Donald
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- Summary
- "Katrina Hazzard-Donald explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. She examines Hoodoo culture and history by tracing its emergence from African traditions to religious practices in the Americas. Working against conventional scholarship, Hazzard-Donald argues that Hoodoo emerged first in three distinct regions she calls "regional Hoodoo clusters" and that after the turn of the nineteenth century, Hoodoo took on a national rather than regional profile. The spread came about through the mechanism of the "African Religion Complex," eight distinct cultural characteristics familiar to all the African ethnic groups in the United States. The first interdisciplinary examination to incorporate a full glossary of Hoodoo culture, Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System lays out the movement of Hoodoo against a series of watershed changes in the American cultural landscape. Hazzard-Donald examines Hoodoo material culture, particularly the "High John the Conquer" root, which practitioners employ for a variety of spiritual uses. She also examines other facets of Hoodoo, including rituals of divination such as the "walking boy" and the "Ring Shout," a sacred dance of Hoodoo tradition that bears its corollaries today in the American Baptist churches. Throughout, Hazzard-Donald 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."--Publisher's description
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Contents
-
- Prescript
- Traditional religion in West Africa and in the new world: a thematic overview
- Disruptive intersection: slavery and the African background in the making of Hoodoo
- The search for High John the Conquer
- Crisis at the crossroads: sustaining and transforming Hoodoo's old black tradition from Emancipation to World War II
- The demise of Dr. Buzzard: black belt Hoodoo between the two World Wars
- Healin' da sick, raisin' da daid: Hoodoo as health care, root doctors, midwives, treaters
- Black belt Hoodoo in the post-World War II cultural environment
- Postscript
- Isbn
- 9780252094460
- Label
- Mojo workin' : the old African American Hoodoo system
- Title
- Mojo workin'
- Title remainder
- the old African American Hoodoo system
- Statement of responsibility
- Katrina Hazzard-Donald
- Subject
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- African American magic
- African American magic
- African Americans
- African Americans -- Folklore
- African Americans -- Religion
- African Americans -- Religion
- African Americans -- ethnology
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Magick Studies
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Witchcraft & Wicca
- Folklore
- History, 19th Century
- Hoodoo (Cult)
- Hoodoo (Cult)
- Magic
- Vodou -- United States
- Volksglaube
- Wodu
- Magie
- Medicine, African Traditional -- history
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric -- United States
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology of Religion
- Schwarze
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
- United States
- United States -- ethnology
- Vodou
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Katrina Hazzard-Donald explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. She examines Hoodoo culture and history by tracing its emergence from African traditions to religious practices in the Americas. Working against conventional scholarship, Hazzard-Donald argues that Hoodoo emerged first in three distinct regions she calls "regional Hoodoo clusters" and that after the turn of the nineteenth century, Hoodoo took on a national rather than regional profile. The spread came about through the mechanism of the "African Religion Complex," eight distinct cultural characteristics familiar to all the African ethnic groups in the United States. The first interdisciplinary examination to incorporate a full glossary of Hoodoo culture, Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System lays out the movement of Hoodoo against a series of watershed changes in the American cultural landscape. Hazzard-Donald examines Hoodoo material culture, particularly the "High John the Conquer" root, which practitioners employ for a variety of spiritual uses. She also examines other facets of Hoodoo, including rituals of divination such as the "walking boy" and the "Ring Shout," a sacred dance of Hoodoo tradition that bears its corollaries today in the American Baptist churches. Throughout, Hazzard-Donald 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."--Publisher's description
- Cataloging source
- CDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1948-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hazzard-Donald, Katrina
- Dewey number
- 133.4308996073
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BL2490
- LC item number
- .H39 2013eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- NLM call number
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- 2015 F-544
- WZ 80.5.B5
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Hoodoo (Cult)
- Vodou
- African American magic
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
- African Americans
- African Americans
- Medicine, African Traditional
- Magic
- History, 19th Century
- African Americans
- United States
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- African American magic
- African Americans
- African Americans
- Hoodoo (Cult)
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
- Vodou
- United States
- Schwarze
- Wodu
- Magie
- Volksglaube
- Label
- Mojo workin' : the old African American Hoodoo system, Katrina Hazzard-Donald
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prescript -- Traditional religion in West Africa and in the new world: a thematic overview -- Disruptive intersection: slavery and the African background in the making of Hoodoo -- The search for High John the Conquer -- Crisis at the crossroads: sustaining and transforming Hoodoo's old black tradition from Emancipation to World War II -- The demise of Dr. Buzzard: black belt Hoodoo between the two World Wars -- Healin' da sick, raisin' da daid: Hoodoo as health care, root doctors, midwives, treaters -- Black belt Hoodoo in the post-World War II cultural environment -- Postscript
- Control code
- 823710278
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780252094460
- Lccn
- 2012020649
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 40021813222
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
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- 418079
- 22573/ctt2mxtm2
- b906585c-aff0-4ce2-8f3f-339839dcddc4
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)823710278
- Label
- Mojo workin' : the old African American Hoodoo system, Katrina Hazzard-Donald
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prescript -- Traditional religion in West Africa and in the new world: a thematic overview -- Disruptive intersection: slavery and the African background in the making of Hoodoo -- The search for High John the Conquer -- Crisis at the crossroads: sustaining and transforming Hoodoo's old black tradition from Emancipation to World War II -- The demise of Dr. Buzzard: black belt Hoodoo between the two World Wars -- Healin' da sick, raisin' da daid: Hoodoo as health care, root doctors, midwives, treaters -- Black belt Hoodoo in the post-World War II cultural environment -- Postscript
- Control code
- 823710278
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780252094460
- Lccn
- 2012020649
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 40021813222
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 418079
- 22573/ctt2mxtm2
- b906585c-aff0-4ce2-8f3f-339839dcddc4
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)823710278
Subject
- African American magic
- African American magic
- African Americans
- African Americans -- Folklore
- African Americans -- Religion
- African Americans -- Religion
- African Americans -- ethnology
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Magick Studies
- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Witchcraft & Wicca
- Folklore
- History, 19th Century
- Hoodoo (Cult)
- Hoodoo (Cult)
- Magic
- Vodou -- United States
- Volksglaube
- Wodu
- Magie
- Medicine, African Traditional -- history
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric -- United States
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology of Religion
- Schwarze
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
- United States
- United States -- ethnology
- Vodou
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