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Sorcery in the black Atlantic, edited by Luis Nicolau Parés and Roger Sansi

Label
Sorcery in the black Atlantic, edited by Luis Nicolau Parés and Roger Sansi
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Sorcery in the black Atlantic
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
edited by Luis Nicolau Parés and Roger Sansi
Table Of Contents
Introduction: sorcery in the black Atlantic / Roger Sansi and Luis Nicolau Pares -- Sorcery and fetishism in the modern Atlantic / Roger Sansi -- Sorcery in Brazil: history and historiography / Laura de Mello e Souza -- Candomble and slave resistance in nineteenth-century Bahia / Joao Jose 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 Palmie -- 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
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