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Sorcery in the black Atlantic /
"Most scholarship on sorcery and witchcraft has narrowly focused on specific times and places, particularly early modern Europe and twentieth-century Africa. And much of that research interprets sorcery as merely a remnant of premodern traditions. Boldly challenging these views, Sorcery in the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.