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Magic and modernity : interfaces of revelation and concealment

Title: Magic and modernity : interfaces of revelation and concealment / edited by Birgit Meyer and Peter Pels.
Publication: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.

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viii, 390 p.; 23 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Between science and superstition: religion and the modern subject of the nation in colonial India / Gyan Prakash -- Undying past: spirit possession and the memory of war in southern Mozambique / Alcinda Honwana -- Robert Kaplan and "Juju journalism" in Sierra Leone's rebel war: the primitivizing of an African conflict / Rosalind Shaw -- The citizen's trance: the Haitian revolution and the motor of history / Laurent Dubois -- Hidden forces: colonialism and the politics of magic in the Netherlands Indies / Margaret J. Wiener -- On witch doctors and spin doctors: the role of "experts" in African and American politics / Peter Geschiere -- The magical power of the (printed) word / Martha Kaplan -- Ghanaian popular cinema and the magic in and of film / Birgit Meyer -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: modern medicine between magic and science / Jojada Verrips -- Spirits of modernity: Alfred Wallace, Edward Tylor, and the visual politics of fact / Peter Pels -- Viscerality, faith, and skepticism: another theory of magic / Michael Taussig.

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Sc E 03-1416

ISBN

0804744637
0804744645

LCCN

2002014751

OCLC

50630490

Title

Magic and modernity : interfaces of revelation and concealment / edited by Birgit Meyer and Peter Pels.

Imprint

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Meyer, Birgit.

Pels, Peter.

Research Call Number

Sc E 03-1416

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