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Series: New Americanists
Published: 12 December 2008
DOI: 10.1215/9780822389415-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8941-5
Published: 01 January 2005
DOI: 10.1215/9780822387015-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8701-5
Published: 17 May 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822383345-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8334-5
Series: a John Hope Franklin Center Book
Published: 31 August 2009
DOI: 10.1215/9780822390992-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9099-2
Series: New Americanists
Published: 06 September 2001
DOI: 10.1215/9780822380146-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8014-6
Published: 06 June 2003
DOI: 10.1215/9780822384502-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8450-2
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By Harry Harootunian
Series: Theory in Forms
Published: 11 October 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027355-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2735-5
Published: 01 January 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478024125-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2412-5
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By Hugo ka Canham
Published: 10 February 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478024224-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2422-4
Published: 23 August 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478021506-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2150-6
Published: 21 February 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060369-014
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6036-9
... In Tanzania, violence against elderly women accused of witchcraft is often conflated with other forms of occult violence , including the sacrificial murders of people with albinism. These so-called witch killings are often viewed as a response to gender discrimination in land tenure disputes...
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By Margaret J. Wiener, Isabelle Stengers
Published: 04 April 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6071-0
... legerdemain occultism credibility nature ...
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By Tithi Bhattacharya
Published: 19 July 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5969-1
... colonial science capitalist modernity Spiritualism occultism indigenous ghosts ...
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By Soma Chaudhuri, Jane Ward
Published: 21 February 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6036-9
... Tanzanian witch-killings occult violence savage slot Sukuma ...
Published: 19 July 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059691-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5969-1
... capitalist modernity Spiritualism occultism indigenous ghosts ...
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By Margaret J. Wiener, Isabelle Stengers
Published: 04 April 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060710-011
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6071-0
... Indonesian skills in legerdemain; others as due to occult forces, possibly at the command of Javanese. Accounts translate these events through metropolitan developments--stage magic versus spiritualism and psychical research.Indonesian responses offer other possibilities. legerdemain occultism...
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By Soma Chaudhuri, Jane Ward
Published: 21 February 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6036-9
... for proof of witchcraft. witch hunts patriarchy cultural beliefs structural transformation In Tanzania, violence against elderly women accused of witchcraft is often conflated with other forms of occult violence , including the sacrificial murders of people with albinism. These so-called...
Published: 03 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373438-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7343-8
... Louis Althusser, the first subject is God and so Bess uses God as a defense against God, as it were, fighting the fire of the occult theology that underlies interpellation with a fire of her own. In so doing, Bess has shown that the circuitry of interpellation, wherein authority is alienated to some...
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By James R. Martel
Published: 03 February 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7343-8
... Butler shows, even for a secularist like Louis Althusser, the first subject is God and so Bess uses God as a defense against God, as it were, fighting the fire of the occult theology that underlies interpellation with a fire of her own. In so doing, Bess has shown that the circuitry of interpellation...
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By Kathleen Diffley
Published: 03 April 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385967-026
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8596-7
...: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983), especially “Knock, Knock, Who’s There?”, 1–41; Ernest Isaacs, “The Fox Sisters and American Spiritualism,” in Howard Kerr and Charles L. Crow, eds., The Occult in America: New Historical...