Sorcery in the black Atlantic / edited by Luis Nicolau Parés and Roger Sansi.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-283) and index.

Introduction: sorcery in the black Atlantic / Roger Sansi and Luis Nicolau Parés -- Sorcery and fetishism in the modern Atlantic / Roger Sansi -- Sorcery in Brazil: history and historiography / Laura de Mello e Souza -- Candomblé and slave resistance in nineteenth-century Bahia / João José Reis -- Chiefs into witches: cosmopolitan discourses of the nation, treason, and sorcery: the Pondoland Revolt, South Africa / Katherine Fidler -- Charlatans and sorcerers: the mental hygiene service in 1930s Recife, Brazil / Daniel Stone -- From enchantment by science to socialist sorcery: the Cuban republic and its savage slot / Stephan Palmié -- The logic of sorcery and democracy in contemporary Brazil / Yvonne Maggie -- Naming the evil: democracy and sorcery in contemporary Cameroon and South Africa / Basile Ndjio -- Families, churches, the state, and the child witch in Angola / Luena Nunes Pereira -- Sorcery, territories, and marginal resistances in Rio de Janeiro / Patricia Birman -- Witchcraft, sorcery, and modernity: thoughts about a strange complicity / Peter Geschiere.

"Most scholarship on sorcery and witchcraft has narrowly focused on specific times and places, particularly early modern Europe and twentieth-century Africa. And much of that research interprets sorcery as merely a remnant of premodern traditions. Boldly challenging these views, Sorcery in the Black Atlantic takes a longer historical and broader geographical perspective, contending that sorcery is best understood as an Atlantic phenomenon that has significant connections to modernity and globalization. A distinguished group of contributors here examine sorcery in Brazil, Cuba, South Africa, Cameroon, and Angola. Their insightful essays reveal the way practices and accusations of witchcraft spread throughout the Atlantic world from the age of discovery up to the present, creating an indelible link between sorcery and the rise of global capitalism. Shedding new light on a topic of perennial interest, Sorcery in the Black Atlantic will be provocative, compelling reading for historians and anthropologists working in this growing field."--Provided by publisher.

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