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