Conjure in African American Society

Contents......Page 8
Preface: Defining the Realm of Investigation......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Introduction: The Invisible Conjurer: The Disappearance of Hoodoo from Conceptions of Black Society......Page 18
1. Vodu and Minkisi: The African Foundation of Black American Magic......Page 42
2. Witches and Medicine Men: European and Native American Building Blocks of Hoodoo......Page 67
3. The Conjurers’ World: The Social Context of Hoodoo in Nineteenth-Century Black Life......Page 92
4. The Conjurers Themselves: Performing and Marketing Hoodoo......Page 107
5. Conjure Shops and Manufacturing: Changes in Hoodoo into the Twentieth Century......Page 129
6. The Magic Continues: Hoodoo at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century......Page 151
Conclusion: The Importance of Conjure in African American Society......Page 167
Notes......Page 178
Note on Sources......Page 206
Bibliography......Page 216
Index......Page 238