Voodoo culture in the U.S.: Bibliography

By Wole Mongo Ife, 14 May 1995

Appiah, Kwame Anthony. (1992).: In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture. Oxford University Press: New York.
Asbury, Herbert. (...): The French Quarter: An Informal History of The N.O. Underworld. Garden City Publishing Co.: Garden City, New York. p.236-83. 457-62.
Bascom, W. (1991).: Ifa Divination: Communication between Gods and Men in West A frica. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
ben-Jochannan, Y.A.A. (1988).: African: Mother of Western Civilization. Black Classic Press: Baltimore, MD.
Donaldson, Gary A. (...).: A Window on Slave Culture: Dances at Congo Square in New Orleans, 1800-1862. Journal of Negro History.
Dutton, Wendy. (1992).: The Problem of Invisibility: Voodoo and Zora Neale Hurston. Frontiers Editoral Collective, Vol. XII, no. 2.
Fatunmbi, Awo Fa'Lokun. (1992).: Awo: Ifa and the Theology of Orisha Divination. Original Publications: Bronx, NY.
Fatunmbi, Awo Fa'Lokun. (1991).: Iwa-pele/Ifa Quest: The Search for the Source of Santeria and Lucumi. Original Publications: Bronx, NY.
Gonzalez-Wippler, M. (1981).: Santeria (fifth edition). Bronx, New York: Original Products.
Haskins, J. (1974).: Witchcraft, Mysticism, and Magic in the Black World. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, p. 69.
Herskovits, M. (1932).: Some Aspects of Dahomean Ethnology. Africa, 5, (3).
Holloway, J. (1991).: Africanisms in American Culture. Indiana University Press: Bloomington.
Hurston, Z. N. (1931).: Hoodoo in America. Journal of American Folklore, 44 (174).
Hurston, Z. N. (1935).: Mules and Men. Harper & Row Publishers, Inc.
Jackson, Joy J. (...).: New Orleans in the Gilded Age. Louisiana State University Press: Baton Rouge.
Jenkins, U.D. (1978).: Ancient African Religion and the African- American Church. Jacksonville, N.C./Flame International.
Latrobe.: New Orleans and its People. The Journal of Latrobe. p. 180-184.
Mbiti, J.S. (1989).: African Religions and Philosophy. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann Educational Books, Inc.
Mulira, J.G. (1991).: The Case of Voodoo in New Orleans, in Africanism in American Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Mulira, J. G. (1984).: A History of the Mahi People from 1774 to 1920. Ph.D. dissertation, UCLA,
Pelton, R. (1972).: The Complete Book of Voodoo. New York: Arco, p. 16.
Roach, Joseph. (1993).: Carnival and the Law in New Orleans. The Drama Review, Fall, v37, n. 3.
Smith, R.S. (1969).: Kingdoms of the Yoruba. University of Wisconsin Press: Madison, p. 35.
Stuckey, S. (1987).: Slave Culture. New York: Oxford.
Tallant, Robert. (1945).: Voodoo. South , May.
Tallant, R. (1945).: Voodoo Articles. New Orleans Collection, The New Orleans Public Library, box 18, folder 9.
Tallant, Robert. (1945).: Voodoo In New Orleans. Pelican Press: Gretna, La.
Thompson, R.F. (1983).
Flash of the Spirit. New York: Vintage.

NEWSPAPERS:

The Daily Picayune:: Voudou Meeting Broken Up. July 31, 1863, p. 2.; The Voudou Case. August 1, 1863, p. 1.; The Voudou Vessels. August 1, 1863, p. 2.; The City. August 2, 1863, p. 4.; The Voudou Again. October 3, 1863, p.1.; Local Sketches. December 5, 1969, p.3.; Back to Barbarism. June 18, 1870, p. 6.; Fetish Rite -- Voudous on the Rampage. June 26, 1870, p. 2.; St. John's Eve. June 24, 1873, p. 4.; The Voudou -- 'Fetish'. June 25, 1873, p. 4.; At Milneburg. June 25, 1874, p, 8.; St. John's Day. June 24, 1874, p. 8.; Voudou Nonsense. June 26, 1874, p. 4.; Fetish. June 24, 1875, p.1.; St. John's Eve. June 25, 1875, p. 2.; St. John Social Club. June 25, 1876.; The Colored Masons. June 24, 1884, p. 2.; A Voodoued Pillow. June 31, 1886, p. 6.; Voodoo Worship Exists in St. Louis. December 22, 1893, p. 2.; Untitled. March 17, 1914, p. 4.
The New Orleans Times:: Voudou. June 30, 1864, p. 5.; A Voudou Case. June 23, 1870, p. 6.; The Voudous Day.S June 25, 1870, p. 6.; Voudouism. June 28, 1870, p. 6.; Untitled. June 24, 1871, p. 4.; Midsummer Eve. Jun 27, 1871, p. 4.; The Voudoos. June 25, 1872, p. 6.; The Voudou Queen in Trouble. June 26, 1872, p. 1.; Making a Night of It. June 26, 1872, p. 2.; The Vous Dous Incantation. June 28, 1872, p. 1.; Fetish Worship: St. John's Eve on the Lake Shore. June 25, 1873, pp. 1-2.; Death Prefigured -- Voudouism as Practiced in the Jardin Mabille. June 16, 1874, p. 6.; The Voudous. June 23, 1874, p. 2.; Celebration of St. John's Day. June 23, 1874, p. 4.; Midnight Mummeries. June 25, 1874, p. 2.; Voudou Vagaries. Jume 26, 1874, p. 4.; Advertisement. June 22, 23, 24, 1875, p. 5.; Fetish Worship. June 25, 1875, p. 2.; Local Brevities. June 25, 1875, p. 4.; St. John's Day. June 24, 1876, p. 4.; St. John's Night. June 25, 1876, p. 12.
The Times Democrat: A Voudou Dance. June 24, 1884, p. 2.; St. John's Day. Jne 25, 1884, p. 4.; Dance of the Voodoos. June 24, 1896, p. 2.
The Daily States: Voudouism. August 26, 1881, p. 4.; His Superstitions. Oct. 15, 1899, p. 15.; Voudou Coffin. Sept. 9, 1896, p. 7.; Voudouism. Aug. 24, 1897, p. 8.; Voudoued. June 24, 1902, p. 2.
New Orleans Bee: The Case of the Voudous. Aug. 1, 1863, p. 1.; Chronique de la Ville. June 25, 1873, p. 1.; Les orgies des Vaudous au Lac. June 25, 1874, p. 1.; Les Voudous. June 25, 1876, p. 1.; Chars De Pontchartrain. June 24, 1875, p. 1.
Miscellaneous Newspapers: Voudou Vagaries. New Orleans Bulletin. June 25, 1875, p. 1.; Voodoo Charm 'Doctor' Makes Court Defense. New Orleans Item. Feb. 6, 1934, p.1.; Nott, G. W. Marie Laveau. The New Orleans Times Picayune, Nov. 19, 1922, magazine section, p. 2.; Posey. Voodoo Notes. Posey Collection, Archieves, Tulane University.; Tegarden, J.B. Hollis. Voodooism. Thesis for University of Chicago Divinity School, 1924.

Submitted by :
Wole Mongo Ife
Ph.D. Fellow
Amer. Culture Studies
Bowling Green State University
Ohio 43402

wife@bgnet.bgsu.edu

From: Elizabeth Mcalister <alister@minerva.cis.yale.edu>
To: Bob Corbett <bcorbett@crl.com>
Subject: RE: Bibliography on Vodou

Thanks to Bob Corbett for passing on the student bibliography.

I would also refer students and scholars to the massive book-length bibliography compiled by John Gray with a foreword by Robert Farris Thompson:

Ashe, Traditional Religion and Healing in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Diaspora.: NY: Greenwood Press, 1989.

It has about 50 pages on Haitian Vodou, plus listings for the other islands and all parts of Sub-Saharan Africa.