Conjure in African American society (Record no. 1938)
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| fixed length control field | 01873nam a2200337 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 133.4/3/08996073 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Anderson, Jeffrey E., |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Conjure in African American society |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Baton Rouge : |
| Name of publisher | Louisiana State University Press, |
| Year of publication | c2005. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xiv, 230 p. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Hoodoo (Cult) |
| Topical Term | Magic. |
| Topical Term | Voodooism |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10285389 |
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