Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Powers of Representation
7. 1. An (Un)natural Mystic in the Air: Images of Obeah in Caribbean Song 45
8. 2. ‘‘Eh! eh! Bomba, hen! hen!’’: Making Sense of a Vodou Chant 80
9. 3. On Swelling: Slavery, Social Science, and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century 103
10. 4. Atis Rezistans: Gede and the Art of Vagabondaj 121
11. Part II. Modernity and Tradition in the Making
12. 5. Slave Poison/Slave Medicine: The Persistence of Obeah in Early Nineteenth-Century Martinique 149
13. 6. The Trials of Inspector Thomas: Policing and Ethnography in Jamaica 172
14. 7. The Moral Economy of Spiritual Work: Money and Rituals in Trinidad and Tobago 198
15. 8. The Open Secrets of Solares 220
16. Part III. Powers on the Move
17. 9. Rites of Power and Rumors of Race: The Circulation of Supernatural Knowledge in the Greater Caribbean, 1890–1940 243
18. 10. The Vodou State and the Protestant Nation: Haiti in the Long Twentieth Century 268
19. 11. The Moral Economy of Brujería under the Modern Colony: A Pirated Modernity? 288
20. Afterword. Other Powers: Tylor’s Principle, Father Williams’s Temptations, and the Power of Banality 316
21. Contributors 341
22. Index 345