This is the first book to explore comparatively how magic—usually portrayed as the antithesis of the modern—is also at home in modernity.

Magic and Modernity is the first book to explore comparatively how magic--usually portrayed as the antithesis of the modern--is also something that is at home i

Drawing from extended fieldwork in La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean, the author suggests an innovative re-reading of different concepts of magic that emerge in

An investigation of how the advance of capitalism, colonialism, and Christianity has engaged a Melanasian society

Bringing together the previously disparate fields of historical witchcraft, reception history, poetics, and psychoanalysis, this innovative study shows how the