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Tables of Contents for Magic and Modernity
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction: Magic and Modernity
1
38
Peter Pels
Between Science and Superstition: Religion and the Modern Subject of the Nation in Colonial India
39
21
Gyan Prakash
Undying Past: Spirit Possession and the Memory of War in Southern Mozambique
60
21
Alcinda Honwana
Robert Kaplan and ``Juju Journalism'' in Sierra Leone's Rebel War: The Primitivizing of an African Conflict
81
22
Rosalind Shaw
The Citizen's Trance: The Haitian Revolution and the Motor of History
103
26
Laurent Dubois
Hidden Forces: Colonialism and the Politics of Magic in the Netherlands Indies
129
30
Margaret J. Wiener
On Witch Doctors and Spin Doctors: The Role of ``Experts'' in African and American Politics
159
24
Peter Geschiere
The Magical Power of the (Printed) Word
183
17
Martha Kaplan
Ghanaian Popular Cinema and the Magic in and of Film
200
23
Birgit Meyer
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Modern Medicine Between Magic and Science
223
18
Jojada Verrips
Spirits of Modernity: Alfred Wallace, Edward Tylor, and the Visual Politics of Fact
241
31
Peter Pels
Viscerality, Faith, and Skepticism: Another Theory of Magic
272
35
Michael Taussig
Notes
307
36
References
343
32
Contributors
375
4
Index
379