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This is short notice, but there is a talk on at Treadwells bookshop (tavistock st, covent garden, London) tonight on African American anthropologist and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston.
Blurb follows:
An appreciation evening of African-American author and anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960). Hurston explored many West Indian, Caribbean, and black Southern North American traditions. Not only one the very first black anthropologists, she was also one of the first ever to research African-American culture and folklore. She travelled extensively to broaden her knowledge, and studied voodoo in New Orleans, Haiti and Jamaica, observing regional differences in faith and practice.
This Treadwells evening includes readings from some of Hurstons seminal works: Mules and Men, published in 1935 and touching upon voodoo practices in black communities in Florida and Louisiana; Tell My Horse, a study of Caribbean voodoo published in 1938; also her most well-known novel, published in 1937, Their Eyes Were Watching God. The evening will be led by New Orleans native Allison Brice, who is known both for her longstanding interest in the magical folklore of the American South as well as for her deep love of Hurstons writing. |
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