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    <body><![CDATA[This book is arguably Hurston's most important contribution to African American culture. It basically documents the folktales and hoodoo practices of Southern blacks in the 1930s. A very emotional book, Hurston captures the adversity of poverty, sexism, and racism very well. If you liked reading &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10657864">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Yo read the hoo-doo section. Hurston was a trained in anthropology at Barnard under Margaret Mead. Hurston was not making that stuff up. Everything she did was for real. My great-grandmother used to talk about people planting roots on her and John the Conquerer. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn't believe I hadn't ready this yet as I have a Zora Neale Hurston obsession but was so happy I hadn't as it is great to read while doing fieldwork. It traces her research in Florida and Louisana presenting the data/folklore she collected.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Zora pioneered the field of folklore back before people gave a damn about their own cultures. This book is particularly fascinating for scholars of the occult as she includes real voodoo rituals in the back of the book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Sits on our shelf next to Grimm and Joel Chandler Harris and Yeats.  Tales it takes years for hundreds to make up, but still only get told by one at a time.  Th best part is, you can cheat and change them yourself if you like.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I discovered this author in an essay by Alice Walker.  I can't wait to get through this book and her novels.  What a great find!  This is maybe the most significant book of African-American Folklore.]]></body>
    
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