1st Edition
Domestic Demons and the Intimate Uncanny
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
Biography
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.
