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The introduction explores the central argument of the book—why the modern sense of the “uncanny” is distinct from the fear evoked by precolonial ghosts—and proposes that such distinction be understood in the context of newly emergent capitalist social relations.

colonial science, capitalist modernity, Spiritualism, occultism, indigenous ghosts

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