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Magic's Translations
- Reality Politics in Colonial Indonesia
Engelsk Paperback
Magic's Translations
- Reality Politics in Colonial Indonesia
Engelsk Paperback

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“Do you believe in magic?” This familiar question suggests magic is easily recognized but unreal. In Magic’s Translations, Margaret J. Wiener argues that such views are shaped by historical power struggles, especially in Europe’s relations with the wider world. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Dutch interactions with Indonesians, Wiener reveals how colonial agents framed unfamiliar practices, practitioners, and objects as “magic,” rendering distinct phenomena fundamentally alike and advancing colonizing projects that deemed magic antithetical to reason and reality. While colonial authorities, including ethnologists, mobilized the concept of magic to differentiate Europeans from Indonesians, nature from culture, reason from superstition, and fact from fetish, their efforts produced unexpected outcomes: Some Indonesian artifacts and acts not only retained their power but invaded European experiences. As anthropologists were among the key translators of magic throughout the world, Wiener intersperses accounts of magic’s translations in the Indies with reflections on anthropology’s ongoing engagement with the concept. She demonstrates that magic became an object of expert knowledge, political control, and popular fascination, rather than a self-evident category or relic of naïve belief.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781478031734
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1478031735
Udg. Dato:
6 maj 2025
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
229mm
Højde:
153mm
Forlag:
Duke University Press
Oplagsdato:
6 maj 2025
Forfatter(e):
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