Domestic Demons and the Intimate Uncanny

This book explores local cultural discourses and practices relating to manifestations and experiences of the demonic, the spectral and the uncanny, probing into their effects on people's domestic and intimate spheres of life.

Autorentext

Thomas G. Kirsch is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

Kirsten Mahlke is Professor of Cultural Theory at the Department of Literature at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

Rijk van Dijk is Professor of Religion in Contemporary Africa and its Diaspora at the African Studies Centre Leiden, Leiden University, the Netherlands.

Inhalt

1 Introduction: Hedging in Demons and the Uncanny

Thomas G. Kirsch, Kirsten Mahlke, and Rijk van Dijk

2 The Familiar Spirit in Tales of Violent Labor Relationships: From Early Modern: France to Agro-Industrial Argentina

Kirsten Mahlke

3 Collective Intimacy in Pentecostal Christianity

Thomas G. Kirsch

4 Science, Fantasy, and Desecration: Gorilla Demons in Colonial Gabon

Florence Bernault

5 From Witchcraft to Satanism: Changing Imaginations and New Experiences in the South African Lowveld

Isak Niehaus

6 Is Digital Memory Our New Demon? Notes on Surveillance and Vulnerability

Silvana Mandolessi

7 Marriage and the Ambiguities of 'Seeds': An Exploration of Intentions and Transparency in Relations in Botswana

Rijk van Dijk and Senzokuhle Doreen Setume

8 Zombies in the House: Thinking through the Spaces of Undead Transatlantic History

Gudrun Rath

9 Hedging in the Demonic: Living with the Dead in the United States

Ehler Voss

10 Afterword: Uncanny Modernities, Early and Late

Jean Comaroff