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Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing. Edited by Diana Paton and Maarit Forde. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012. Notes. Index. $99.95 cloth; $27.95 paper.

Foreword
Erna Brodber

Introduction
Maarit Forde and Diana Paton

PART I: Powers of Representation

An (Un)natural Mystic in the Air: Images of Obeah in Caribbean Song
Kenneth Bilby [End Page 96]

"Eh! eh! Bomba, hen! hen!": Making Sense of a Vodou Chant
Alasdair Pettinger

On Swelling: Slavery, Social Science, and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
Alejandra Bronfman

Atis Rezistans: Gede and the Art of Vagabondaj
Katherine Smith

Part II: Modernity and Tradition in the Making

Slave Poison/Slave Medicine: The Persistence of Obeah in Early Nineteenth-Century Martinique
John Savage

The Trials of Inspector Thomas: Policing and Ethnography in Jamaica
Diane Paton

The Moral Economy of Spiritual Work: Money and Rituals in Trinidad and Tobago
Maarit Forde

The Open Secrets of Solares
Elizabeth Cooper

Part III: Powers on the Move

Rites of Power and Rumors of Race: The Circulation of Supernatural Knowledge in the Greater Caribbean, 1890-1940
Lara Putnam

The Vodou State and the Protestant Nation: Haiti in the Long Twentieth Century
Karen Richman

The Moral Economy of Brujería under the Modern Colony: A Pirated Modernity?
Raquel Romberg

Afterword: Other Powers: Tylor's Principle, Father William's Temptations, and the Power of Banality
Stephan Palmié

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