Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order

Published by Duke University Press 2003

Transparency and Conspiracy

Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order

Edited by: Harry G. West and Todd Sanders
With contributions by: Laurel Kendall and Misty L. Bastian

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822384854

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About this book

Ethnographies of alienated, often occult, responses to economic globalization.

Author / Editor information

Harry G. West is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the New School University. He is editor of Conflict and Its Resolution in Contemporary Africa.

Todd Sanders is University Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. He is coeditor of Magical Interpretations, Material Reality: Modernity, Witchcraft, and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa and Those Who Play with Fire: Gender, Fertility, and Transformation in East and Southern Africa.

Reviews

"There are few topics of more profound and immediate significance than transparency and conspiracy, the twin specters of contemporary globality. Harry G. West’s and Todd Sanders's collection displays the virtues of analyzing the particularities of experience in different places while, at the same time, treating this topic as one with general implications and transnational origins. This is what anthropology does best, and this group of essays does it very well indeed."—Rosalind C. Morris, Columbia University

”Transparency and Conspiracy connects with a central question presently before the field of anthropology and globalization studies: how to interpret the varied cultural forms which alienation from modernity is taking today.”—Don Robotham, City University of New York Graduate Center

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Power Revealed and Concealed in the NewWorld Order Todd Sanders and Harry G. West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Gods, Markets, and the IMF in the Korean Spirit World Laurel Kendall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
2 ‘‘Diabolic Realities’’: Narratives of Conspiracy, Transparency, and ‘‘Ritual Murder’’ in the Nigerian Popular Print and Electronic Media Misty L. Bastian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
3 ‘‘Who Rules Us Now?’’ Identity Tokens, Sorcery, and Other Metaphors in the 1994 Mozambican Elections Harry G. West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
4 Through a Glass Darkly: Charity, Conspiracy, and Power in New Order Indonesia Albert Schrauwers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
5 Invisible Hands and Visible Goods: Revealed and Concealed Economies in Millennial Tanzania Todd Sanders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
6 Stalin and the Blue Elephant: Paranoia and Complicity in Post-Communist Metahistories Caroline Humphrey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
7 Paranoia, Conspiracy, and Hegemony in American Politics Daniel Hellinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
8 Making Wanga: Reality Constructions and the Magical Manipulation of Power Karen Mccarthy Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
9 Anxieties of Influence: Conspiracy Theory and Therapeutic Culture in Millennial America Susan Harding and Kathleen Stewart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
Transparent Fictions; or, The Conspiracies of a Liberal Imagination: An Afterword Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 328

eBook

Published: April 17, 2003
ISBN: 9780822384854