This book explores local cultural discourses and practices relating to manifestations and experiences of the demonic, the spectral and the uncanny, probing into their effects on people's domestic and intimate spheres of life.
This book explores local cultural discourses and practices relating to manifestations and experiences of the demonic, the spectral and the uncanny, probing into their effects on people's domestic and intimate spheres of life.
Thomas G. Kirsch is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Kirsten Mahlke is Professor of Cultural Theory at the Department of Literature at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Rijk van Dijk is Professor of Religion in Contemporary Africa and its Diaspora at the African Studies Centre Leiden, Leiden University, the Netherlands.
Inhaltsangabe
1 Introduction: Hedging in Demons and the Uncanny Thomas G. Kirsch, Kirsten Mahlke, and Rijk van Dijk 2 The Familiar Spirit in Tales of Violent Labor Relationships: From Early Modern: France to Agro-Industrial Argentina Kirsten Mahlke 3 Collective Intimacy in Pentecostal Christianity Thomas G. Kirsch 4 Science, Fantasy, and Desecration: Gorilla Demons in Colonial Gabon Florence Bernault 5 From Witchcraft to Satanism: Changing Imaginations and New Experiences in the South African Lowveld Isak Niehaus 6 Is Digital Memory Our New Demon? Notes on Surveillance and Vulnerability Silvana Mandolessi 7 Marriage and the Ambiguities of 'Seeds': An Exploration of Intentions and Transparency in Relations in Botswana Rijk van Dijk and Senzokuhle Doreen Setume 8 Zombies in the House: Thinking through the Spaces of Undead Transatlantic History Gudrun Rath 9 Hedging in the Demonic: Living with the Dead in the United States Ehler Voss 10 Afterword: Uncanny Modernities, Early and Late Jean Comaroff
1 Introduction: Hedging in Demons and the Uncanny Thomas G. Kirsch, Kirsten Mahlke, and Rijk van Dijk 2 The Familiar Spirit in Tales of Violent Labor Relationships: From Early Modern: France to Agro-Industrial Argentina Kirsten Mahlke 3 Collective Intimacy in Pentecostal Christianity Thomas G. Kirsch 4 Science, Fantasy, and Desecration: Gorilla Demons in Colonial Gabon Florence Bernault 5 From Witchcraft to Satanism: Changing Imaginations and New Experiences in the South African Lowveld Isak Niehaus 6 Is Digital Memory Our New Demon? Notes on Surveillance and Vulnerability Silvana Mandolessi 7 Marriage and the Ambiguities of 'Seeds': An Exploration of Intentions and Transparency in Relations in Botswana Rijk van Dijk and Senzokuhle Doreen Setume 8 Zombies in the House: Thinking through the Spaces of Undead Transatlantic History Gudrun Rath 9 Hedging in the Demonic: Living with the Dead in the United States Ehler Voss 10 Afterword: Uncanny Modernities, Early and Late Jean Comaroff
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