Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Hierarchies of Race and Religion: Fetishism, Totemism, Manitou, and Conjure -- Chapter 2. Superstition and Progress -- Chapter 3. Primitivism, Modernism, and Magic -- Chapter 4. Black Arts: Conjure and Spirit -- Chapter 5. The Return of the Fetish -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
Matter, Magic, and Spirit explores the ways religious and magical beliefs of Native Americans and African Americans have been represented in a range of discourses including anthropology, comparative religion, and literature
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-206) and index
