Can I read Folk beliefs of the southern Negro on EtoBox?

Folk beliefs of the southern Negro by Newbell Niles Puckett is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Folk beliefs of the southern Negro about?

Originally produced as for a Doctorate of Philosophy at Yale, this remarkable history of twenty or so years of Black life in the South is fascinating. Centering around folklore and superstition, it details "Negro folk beliefs, to show their origin whenever possible, and to indicate some of the general principles governing the transmission and content of folk-lore in general." (From the preface...)

Author

Newbell Niles Puckett

Publisher

Montclair, N.J., Patterson Smith

Published

1968

Language

EN

Subjects

Folklore, Anthropology, Humanities