Sorcery in the Black Atlantic

CONTENTS

1 Introduction: Sorcery in the Black Atlantic
Roger Sansi and Luis Nicolau Parés

2 Sorcery and Fetishism in the Modern Atlantic
Roger Sansi

3 Sorcery in Brazil: History and Historiography
Laura de Mello e Souza

4 Candomblé and Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Bahia
João José Reis

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

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

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

8 The Logic of Sorcery and Democracy in Contemporary Brazil
Yvonne Maggie

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

10 Families, Churches, the State, and the Child Witch in Angola
Luena Nunes Pereira

11 Sorcery, Territories, and Marginal Resistances in Rio de Janeiro
Patricia Birman

12 Witchcraft and Modernity: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond
Peter Geschiere

Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index