Sorcery in the black Atlantic
By: edited by Luis Nicolau Parés and Roger Sansi
Contributors: Sansi-Roca, Roger
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780226645773; 9780226645780
Subjects: Tovenarij; Magic; Zwarten; Witchcraft
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-283) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: sorcery in the black Atlantic / Roger Sansi and Luis Nicolau Parés; title: Sorcery and fetishism in the modern Atlantic / Roger Sansi; title: Sorcery in Brazil: history and historiography / Laura de Mello e Souza; title: Candomblé and slave resistance in nineteenth-century Bahia / João José Reis; title: Chiefs into witches: cosmopolitan discourses of the nation, treason, and sorcery: the Pondoland Revolt, South Africa / Katherine Fidler; title: Charlatans and sorcerers: the mental hygiene service in 1930s Recife, Brazil / Daniel Stone; title: From enchantment by science to socialist sorcery: the Cuban republic and its savage slot / Stephan Palmié; title: The logic of sorcery and democracy in contemporary Brazil / Yvonne Maggie; title: Naming the evil: democracy and sorcery in contemporary Cameroon and South Africa / Basile Ndjio; title: Families, churches, the state, and the child witch in Angola / Luena Nunes Pereira; title: Sorcery, territories, and marginal resistances in Rio de Janeiro / Patricia Birman; title: Witchcraft and modernity: perspectives from Africa and beyond / Peter Geschiere.