Magic (Other Keyword)

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African Slave Spells and Root Work: Crossing the Boundary of Past to Present in Contemporary Cemeteries (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sharon K. Moses.

Recurring evidence of "root work" or "hoodoo" and other African magic rituals have been found periodically in and around the graves of the recently dead in contemporary cemeteries located in the South. This paper is an exploration of the connection between the author’s excavation site, a slave street on a former rice plantation located in the South Carolina Low Country, and descendants that maintain conjuring traditions and practices. Slaves used "root work" and rituals for health curatives, to...


Appendix XI U.S. Peace Corps Volunteers on Traditional Medicine (1999)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Rufino Mauricio.

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The Aymara Indians of the Lake Titicaca Plateaus, Bolivia (1948)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Weston LaBarre.

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The Flathead Indians of Montana (1937)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Harry Holbert Turney-High.

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Folk Culture of Yucatan (1941)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Redfield.

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Ho-Hum Hoofwear or Meaningfully Magical? How to Identify and Interpret Apotropaic Horseshoes (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Rivers Cofield.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digging Deep: Close Engagement with the Material World" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Horseshoes are common finds on post-contact sites in the Chesapeake and elsewhere. While they are typically interpreted as artifacts of transportation or agriculture, horseshoes also served magical functions such as warding off evil and bringing good luck. This creates an interpretive problem for archaeologists as the...


Magic and Mystery on a Chesapeake Plantation (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia M. Samford.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digging Deep: Close Engagement with the Material World" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. At Smith’s St. Leonard, the site of a Maryland tobacco plantation dating to the first half of the 18th century, a number of apotropaic objects have been discovered by archaeologists over the last two decades. Including bent silver coins, horseshoes, fossils and altered spoons and lead disks, these objects seem to embody...


Ozark Magic and Folklore (1964)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Vance Randolph.

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Ozark Superstitions (1947)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Vance Randolph.

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Some "muse"ings on past and recent encounters with lutins, naiads and non-anthropomorphic forces: Reconsidering vocabulary and questions concerning "religion" and "belief" in face of ethno-archaeological experiences in Madagascar. (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Kus. Victor Raharijaoana.

This contribution involves a re-examination of assertions we have made in the past concerning "religion", "belief" and "ideology: jettisoning some, reasserting others, and offering "refinements" where appropriate. Often limited cultural exposure to a circumscript terrain of contemporary religions in service of the state contributes significantly to the initial framing of our questions (and attendant expectation of answers). One of our lives, embedded in context in rural and urban Madagascar,...