Conjuring Pasts and Ethnographic Presents in Zora Neale Hurston's Modernity
Although history suggests that conjure is a practice hidden from plain view, Zora Neale Hurston's ethnographies unearthed the pervasive and varied ways Black people throughout the diasporaand Black women especiallyused conjure to create a new reality or to disrupt the existing one. In this es...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
[2016]
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| In: |
Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2016, Volume: 4, Issue: 2, Pages: 225-235 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Hurston, Zora Neale 1891-1960, Mules and Men
/ Florida
/ South Carolina
/ Women, Black
/ Conjuration
/ The Modern
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements KBQ North America TK Recent history |
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| Summary: | Although history suggests that conjure is a practice hidden from plain view, Zora Neale Hurston's ethnographies unearthed the pervasive and varied ways Black people throughout the diasporaand Black women especiallyused conjure to create a new reality or to disrupt the existing one. In this essay, we revisit Hurston's ethnographic and folkloric study Mules and Men to consider the question: What does it mean for Black women in America to conjure in modernity? We use ethnographic examinations of two contemporary localesone of Florida's fantasy corridors and the South Carolina lowcountryto unearth how contemporary Black women draw from the conjure tradition Hurston documented eighty years ago. When viewed through Hurston's ethnographic history, contemporary Black women's richly layered conjure practices disrupt the widely destructive effects of modernity. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-5413 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Africana religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5325/jafrireli.4.2.0225 |