Ep 236: Hoodoo and Voodoo with Dr. Jeffrey Anderson

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David Flora

Science, Society & Culture, Social Sciences

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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A review of Voodoo for you! Flora is joined by History professor Dr. Jeffrey Anderson for a very informative discussion on Hoodoo and Voodoo! One of the foremost experts on Hoodoo and Voodoo, Dr. Jeffrey Anderson offers a detailed interview on the history and culture of this poorly-understood religion. David asks questions on how it got started, how it spread and evolved, and what the modern practice looks like. The pantheon of deities is discussed, as is the distinction between hoodoo and even a little bit about zombies. Dr. Anderson provides a veritable king cake of knowledge (with a voodoo doll baby to find) in this episode of Blurry Photos!

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1:00.0	Of course you think of dolls with pins in them, love potions, backroom, buy you deals and rituals, and yes zombies when voodoo comes up. But does it work? Where did it come from? And is it still
1:10.8	practice today or is it mostly Hollywood halleballou?
1:15.2	We're calling up an old topic covered in season two to get some finer details with the help of
1:20.2	Dr. Jeffrey Anderson, professor of History at the University of Louisiana
1:24.4	Monroe. We are chasing down a hoodoo there on this episode of blurry photos. I'm your host David Flora. Howdy? Welcome. Hi,
1:50.6	howdy. This episode I'm'm excited for, because we're revisiting a topic covered back in 2013,
1:58.0	one that is often poorly understood and even poorly explained.
2:04.0	Well, that's not the case today,
2:05.4	as I enlisted the help of an absolute expert
2:08.5	on the history and culture of voodoo, Dr. Jeffrey Anderson. Dr. Anderson holds a PhD from the University of Florida in Old South and African American
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