Transparency and Conspiracy
Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order
1st Edition
Published on 17. April 2003
328 pages
978-0-8223-8485-4 (ISBN)
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Ethnographies of alienated, often occult, responses to economic globalization.
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Transparency and Conspiracy
Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order
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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.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Power Revealed and Concealed in the New World Order / Todd Sanders and Harry G. West 1
1. Gods, Markets, and the IMF in the Korean Spirit World / Laurel Kendall 38
2. "Diabolic Realities": Narratives of Conspiracy, Transparency, and "Ritual Murder" in the Nigerian Popular Print and Electronic Media / Misty L. Bastian 65
3. "Who Rules Us Now?" Identity Tokens, Sorcery, and Other Metaphors in the 1994 Mozambican Elections / Harry G. West 92
4. Through a Glass Darkly: Charity, Conspiracy, and Power in New Order Indonesia / Albert Schrauwers 125
5. Invisible Hands and Visible Goods: Revealed and Concealed Economies in Millennial Tanzania / Todd Sanders 148
6. Stalin and the Blue Elephant: Paranoia and Complicity in Post-Communist Metahistories / Caroline Humphrey 175
7. Paranoia, Conspiracy, and Hegemony in American Politics / Daniel Hellinger 204
8. Making Wanga: Reality Constructions and the Magical Manipulation of Power / Karen McCarthy Brown 233
9. Anxieties of Influence: Conspiracy Theory and Therapeutic Culture in Millennial America / Susan Harding and Kathleen Stewart 258
Transparent Fictions; or, The Conspiracies of a Liberal Imagination: An Afterword / Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff 287
Contributors 301
Index 305
Power Revealed and Concealed in the New World Order / Todd Sanders and Harry G. West 1
1. Gods, Markets, and the IMF in the Korean Spirit World / Laurel Kendall 38
2. "Diabolic Realities": Narratives of Conspiracy, Transparency, and "Ritual Murder" in the Nigerian Popular Print and Electronic Media / Misty L. Bastian 65
3. "Who Rules Us Now?" Identity Tokens, Sorcery, and Other Metaphors in the 1994 Mozambican Elections / Harry G. West 92
4. Through a Glass Darkly: Charity, Conspiracy, and Power in New Order Indonesia / Albert Schrauwers 125
5. Invisible Hands and Visible Goods: Revealed and Concealed Economies in Millennial Tanzania / Todd Sanders 148
6. Stalin and the Blue Elephant: Paranoia and Complicity in Post-Communist Metahistories / Caroline Humphrey 175
7. Paranoia, Conspiracy, and Hegemony in American Politics / Daniel Hellinger 204
8. Making Wanga: Reality Constructions and the Magical Manipulation of Power / Karen McCarthy Brown 233
9. Anxieties of Influence: Conspiracy Theory and Therapeutic Culture in Millennial America / Susan Harding and Kathleen Stewart 258
Transparent Fictions; or, The Conspiracies of a Liberal Imagination: An Afterword / Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff 287
Contributors 301
Index 305
