Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-220) and index.
Contents:
Conclusion: The importance of conjure in African American 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.
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