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Series: Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices
Published: 22 September 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2727-0
... judges charlatans fabulation Donna Haraway credulity ...
Series: Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices
Published: 22 September 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027270-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2727-0
... France dismissing Mesmer, and the more general alarm raised concerning “charlatans” are explored here for what they can show us about the exclusion of “the public” evident in discussions about its worrying “credulity.” The chapter develops Gilles Deleuze's idea of the “truth of the relative...
Published: 04 April 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060710-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6071-0
... with their implicit opposite, the white man of reason (exemplified by colonial officials). This chapter addresses how specialists in healing and harming were transformed not only into witch doctors, but also charlatans, native physicians, magicians, and traditional healers. Colonial authorities concerned themselves...