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Mules and men / Zora Neale Hurston ; with a preface by Franz Boas ; a foreword by Arnold Rampersad ; an afterword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; and illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias.
- Title
- Mules and men / Zora Neale Hurston ; with a preface by Franz Boas ; a foreword by Arnold Rampersad ; an afterword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; and illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias.
- Author
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Publication
- New York : Harper Perennial, 2008.
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- Description
- xxiii, 309, 32 p. : ill., music; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Mules and Men is a treasury of black America's folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed an oral history of the South since the time of slavery. Returning to her hometown of Eatonville, Florida, to gather material, Zora Neale Hurston recalls "a hilarious night with a pinch of everything social mixed with the storytelling." Set intimately within the social context of black life, the stories, "big old lies," songs, Vodou customs, and superstitions recorded in these pages capture the imagination and bring back to life the humor and wisdom that is the unique heritage of African Americans. -- Publisher's website.
- Series Statement
- Harper Perennial modern classics
- Uniform Title
- Harper Perennial modern classics
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Folklore
- Music
- Folklore.
- Music.
- Note
- Originally published: J.B. Lippincott, c1935.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-302).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Folk tales -- Hoodoo -- Glossary -- Appendix: I. Negro songs with music ; II. Formulae of Hoodoo doctors ; III. Paraphernalia of conjure ; IV. : Prescriptions of root doctors -- Chronology -- In search of Zora Neale Hurston / Alice Walker -- Wrestling with Mules and men : the story behind the book.
- ISBN
- 9780061350177
- 0061350176
- OCLC
- 190964184
- SCSB-11463308
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library