| Contents |
An (un)natural mystic in the air : images of Obeah in Caribbean song / Kenneth Bilby -- "Eh! Eh! Bomba, hen! Hen!" : making sense of a vodou chant / Alasdair Pettinger -- On swelling : remedies and rituals in colonial medicine / Alejandra Bronfman -- Atis Rezistans : Gede and the art of vagabondaj / Katherine Smith -- Slave poison/slave medicine : the persistence of Obeah in early 19th century Martinique / John Savage -- The Trials of Inspector Thomas : policing and ethnography in Jamaica / Diana Paton -- The moral economy of spiritual work : money and rituals in Trinidad and Tobago / Maarit Forde -- The open secrets of Solares / Elizabeth Cooper -- Rites of power and rumours of race : the circulation of supernatural knowledge and sacrifice tales in the greater Caribbean, 1890-1940 / Lara Putnam -- The vodou state and the Protestant nation : Haiti in the long twentieth century / Karen E. Richman -- The moral economy of brujerÃa under the modern colony : a pirated modernity? / Raquel Romberg -- Afterword: Other powers : Tylor's principle, Father Williams' temptations, and the power of banality / Stephan Palmié. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2011036577 |
| ISBN | 9780822351337 |
| ISBN | 9780822351245 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822351242 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822351331 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
