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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"hoodoo"”.
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“THE HOODOO YOU KNEW”: AN AFROCENTRIC (RE)LOCATION OF CONJURE AND HOODOO COSMOLOGY
… to African peoples in the Diaspora by exploring Hoodoo through an Afrocentric lens. By adopting this perspective, the researcher aims to normalize Hoodoo as a living spiritual system and shed light on the influence of Eurocentric scholarship in shaping perceptions of Hoodoo and African Diasporic …
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Hoodoo and the Law: mostly printed works
This paper discusses the relationship of ideas to their media, through the relationship of contents to a book and through the use of aesthetic barriers. The conceptual content of the artworks produced center around epistemological self-betterment and practical mysticism. I discuss in this paper my …
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Not your father’s religion: A case study of Hoodoo practitioners on TikTok
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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Hermeneutics of the Crossroads
… place myself in the center of possibility within Hoodoo culture, in order to personally discover how this revered, yet often overlooked, culture speaks to and through Blues, literature, and the crossroads.</p>
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“BELIEF IN MAGIC IS OLDER THAN WRITING”: AN EXAMINATION OF ETHNOGRAPHIC AND LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF AFRICAN-BASED BELIEF SYSTEMS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1928-1988.
… Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men, Harry Hyatt’s Hoodoo Conjuration Witchcraft Rootwork, and fiction by authors Ishmael Reed, Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, and Gloria Naylor. By tracing the ways in which representations of African-based beliefs have been constructed across formal and disciplinary …
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Chord Conundrum: Examining the Performance Practice of Polyphonic Figures in J.S. Bach's Solo Violin Works
… During the era referred to as the Renaissance (HOODOO), numerous composers wrote for instruments, but in general intended the instruments to accompany the voice, harmonizing or providing a countermelody to a madrigal. Furthermore, these composers often left the instrumentation - with the …
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The politics of race and mental illness in the Post-Emancipation US South : Central Lunatic Asylum for the Colored Insane in historical perspective
In "The Politics of Race and Mental Illness" I explore the relationship between conceptualizations of black mental health and white social control from 1865 to 1881. Chapter one historically contextualizes black mental health, highlighting psychiatrists', slaveholders', and black slaves' …
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From the Old to the New World: The Transformation of Kongo Minkisi in African American Art
Minkisi (sing. nkisi) were sacred objects that housed ancestral spirits and were used for divination, healing and social justice by the Kongo people of Central Africa. When the Kongo were brought as slaves to the New World, they contributed significantly to the development of African American …