Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Dutch relations with Indonesians, Margaret J. Wiener examines how the concept of magic emerged out of historical struggles between Europe and the rest of the world.
Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Dutch relations with Indonesians, Margaret J. Wiener examines how the concept of magic emerged out of historical struggles between Europe and the rest of the world.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Margaret J. Wiener is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of Visible and Invisible Realms: Power, Magic, and Colonial Conquest in Bali. Isabelle Stengers is Emerita Professor of the Philosophy of Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles.
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Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Interlude 1. Witch Doctors 29 1. Tricky Subjects 33 Interlude 2. The Fetish 67 2. Troubling Objects 71 Interlude 3. Coordinating Devices 111 3. Things Collective 117 Interlude 4. Getting Caught 151 4. Dangerous Liaisons 155 Interlude 5. The Magic of Magic 187 5. Hidden Forces 191 Interlude 6. The Magic of Science Studies 229 Epilogue 233 Afterword / Isabelle Stengers 245 Notes 257 Bibliography 287 Index 307