In this book, the articles explore the different social practices that are typically understood as sorcery, magic and ritual, and address a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the America's.

Introduction: Outside All Reason - Magic, Sorcery and Epistemology in Anthropology B. Kapferer Chapter 1. Anthroposophy and Voodoo in Dominican-Haitian Borderlands M. Brendbekken Chapter 2. The Smell of Death: Theft, Disgust and Ritual Practice in Central Lombok, Indonesia K.G. Telle Chapter 3. Sorcery, Modernity and the Constitutive Imaginary: Hybridising Continuities B. Kapferer Chapter 4. The Sorcerer as the Absented Third Person: Formations of Fear and Anger in Vanuatu K. Rio Chapter 5. Sorcerous Technologies and Religious Innovation in Sri Lanka R. Bastin Chapter 6. Maleficent Fetishes and the Sensual Order of the Uncanny in South West Congo R. Devisch Chapter 7. Fantasy in Practice: Projection and Ontrojection, or the Witch and the Spirit-Medium M. Lambek Chapter 8. The Discourse of 'Ritual Murder': Popular Reaction to Political Leaders in Botswana O. Gulbrandsen Chapter 9. Strange Fruit: The South African Truth Commission and Demonic Economies of Violence A. Feldman Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index