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xiv, 230 p. 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. Jeffrey E. Anderson. Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-220) and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. n-us--- Hoodoo (Cult) Magic Voodooism United States BL2490 .A64 2005eb 133.4/3/08996073 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10285389 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10285389 CaPaEBR 050215 ebr10285389