Witchcraft and modernity: perspectives from Africa and beyond

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