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Sorcery in the black Atlantic
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- Creator
- edited by Luis Nicolau Parés and Roger Sansi
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- 300 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226645773, 9780226645780, 0226645770, 0226645797, 128306619X, 0226645789, 9780226645797, 9781283066198
- OCLC
- ocn712048414, ocn587209659
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-283) and index.
- Introduction: sorcery in the black Atlantic / Roger Sansi and Luis Nicolau Parés -- Sorcery and fetishism in the modern Atlantic / Roger Sansi -- Sorcery in Brazil: history and historiography / Laura de Mello e Souza -- Candomblé and slave resistance in nineteenth-century Bahia / João José Reis -- Chiefs into witches: cosmopolitan discourses of the nation, treason, and sorcery: the Pondoland Revolt, South Africa / Katherine Fidler -- Charlatans and sorcerers: the mental hygiene service in 1930s Recife, Brazil / Daniel Stone -- From enchantment by science to socialist sorcery: the Cuban republic and its savage slot / Stephan Palmié -- The logic of sorcery and democracy in contemporary Brazil / Yvonne Maggie -- Naming the evil: democracy and sorcery in contemporary Cameroon and South Africa / Basile Ndjio -- Families, churches, the state, and the child witch in Angola / Luena Nunes Pereira -- Sorcery, territories, and marginal resistances in Rio de Janeiro / Patricia Birman -- Witchcraft, sorcery, and modernity: thoughts about a strange complicity / Peter Geschiere