Sorcery in the black Atlantic / edited by Luis Nicolau Pares and Roger Sansi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parés, Luis Nicolau.

Sansi-Roca, Roger.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Witchcraft--Brazil.

Witchcraft.

Magic--Brazil.

Magic.

Witchcraft--South Africa.

Magic--South Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Black Atlantic takes a longer historical and broader geographical perspective, contending that sorcery is best understood as an Atlantic phenomenon that has significant connections to modernity and globalization. A distinguished group of contributors here examine sorcery in Brazil, Cuba, South Africa, Cameroon, and Angola. Their insightful essays reveal the way practices and accusations of witchcraft spread throughout the Atlantic world from the age of discovery up to the present, creating an indelible link between sorcery and the rise of global capitalism. Shedding new light on a topic of perennial interest, Sorcery in the Black Atlantic will be provocative, compelling reading for historians and anthropologists working in this growing field.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1. Introduction: Sorcery in the Black Atlantic

2. Sorcery and Fetishism in the Modern Atlantic

3. Sorcery in Brazil: History and Historiography

4. Candomblé and Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Bahia

5. Chiefs into Witches: Cosmopolitan Discourses of the Nation, Treason, and Sorcery; The Pondoland Revolt, South Africa

6. Charlatans and Sorcerers: The Mental Hygiene Service in 1930s Recife, Brazil

7. From Enchantment by Science to Socialist Sorcery: The Cuban Republic and Its Savage Slot

8. The Logic of Sorcery and Democracy in Contemporary Brazil

9. Naming the Evil: Democracy and Sorcery in Contemporary Cameroon and South Africa

10. Families, Churches, the State, and the Child Witch in Angola

11. Sorcery, Territories, and Marginal Resistances in Rio de Janeiro

12. Witchcraft and Modernity: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786613066190

9781283066198

128306619X

9780226645797

0226645797

OCLC:

712048414