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Chapter 4. Broken Words: Tools of Oracular Articulacy in Afro-Cuban Divination
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Figures VII
- Acknowledgments VIII
- Introduction On the Materiality of Unseen Things 1
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Part I Bodily Semantics, Metaphor, and Mediation
- Chapter 1 Organicism and Psychical Research Where Mediums and Mushrooms Meet 23
- Chapter 2. Semantics of the Suffering: Torture Technologies and Mediumship in Buenos Aires 46
- Chapter 3 Media Technologies and the Otherworld in Late Socialist Vietnam 67
- Chapter 4. Broken Words: Tools of Oracular Articulacy in Afro-Cuban Divination 90
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Part II Orders of Sound, Sight, and Measurement
- Chapter 5. Radioaficionados and UFOs: The Social Life of Radios in Chile 109
- Chapter 6. Hospitality and Proof: Human Mediums, Technical Media, and Controversial Knowledge in Ghost-Hunting Practices in the United States 132
- Chapter 7. Picturing the Unseen: Polaroid Practice and the Re-enchantment of the Western World 153
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Part III Mattering Invisible Powers
- Chapter 8. Specters of Climate and the Construction of Ghostly Realities in Brazil 177
- Chapter 9. Ontological Opportunism: Reanimating the Inanimate in Physics and Science Communication at CERN 200
- Chapter 10. Phantom Power, Parallax, and the Multiple Cities of Luanda: Manifestation and Materialization in Angola 222
- Conclusion. Mediation and Variable Communications 243
- Index 259
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Figures VII
- Acknowledgments VIII
- Introduction On the Materiality of Unseen Things 1
-
Part I Bodily Semantics, Metaphor, and Mediation
- Chapter 1 Organicism and Psychical Research Where Mediums and Mushrooms Meet 23
- Chapter 2. Semantics of the Suffering: Torture Technologies and Mediumship in Buenos Aires 46
- Chapter 3 Media Technologies and the Otherworld in Late Socialist Vietnam 67
- Chapter 4. Broken Words: Tools of Oracular Articulacy in Afro-Cuban Divination 90
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Part II Orders of Sound, Sight, and Measurement
- Chapter 5. Radioaficionados and UFOs: The Social Life of Radios in Chile 109
- Chapter 6. Hospitality and Proof: Human Mediums, Technical Media, and Controversial Knowledge in Ghost-Hunting Practices in the United States 132
- Chapter 7. Picturing the Unseen: Polaroid Practice and the Re-enchantment of the Western World 153
-
Part III Mattering Invisible Powers
- Chapter 8. Specters of Climate and the Construction of Ghostly Realities in Brazil 177
- Chapter 9. Ontological Opportunism: Reanimating the Inanimate in Physics and Science Communication at CERN 200
- Chapter 10. Phantom Power, Parallax, and the Multiple Cities of Luanda: Manifestation and Materialization in Angola 222
- Conclusion. Mediation and Variable Communications 243
- Index 259