- Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing ed. by Diana Paton and Maarit Forde
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