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American Ethnologist, 2022
ABSTRACTBy compiling official paperwork, bureaucrats in institutional settings effectively make their clients into the particular “types” of subjects best suited to preestablished institutional interventions. The efficacy of such paperwork stems from bureaucrats’ unspoken—and perhaps unacknowledged—belief in sympathetic magic, or a person's ability to ...
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ABSTRACTBy compiling official paperwork, bureaucrats in institutional settings effectively make their clients into the particular “types” of subjects best suited to preestablished institutional interventions. The efficacy of such paperwork stems from bureaucrats’ unspoken—and perhaps unacknowledged—belief in sympathetic magic, or a person's ability to ...
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2022
Qin Lei discusses the neglected topic of the China-centred transnational internationalist movement that was initiated by Willi Münzenberg and his circle in “Conjuring a Battling China”. Münzenberg’s left-wing popular front campaign existed throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
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Qin Lei discusses the neglected topic of the China-centred transnational internationalist movement that was initiated by Willi Münzenberg and his circle in “Conjuring a Battling China”. Münzenberg’s left-wing popular front campaign existed throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
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1985
"The most consistently rewarding of the recent anthologies focusing on Afro-American women’s writing... " -Modern Fiction Studies"... successfully [exposes] the core of Black women’s writing and confidently [places] it within the American literary tradition." -Belles LettresBlack women have been writing and publishing fiction for more than a century ...
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"The most consistently rewarding of the recent anthologies focusing on Afro-American women’s writing... " -Modern Fiction Studies"... successfully [exposes] the core of Black women’s writing and confidently [places] it within the American literary tradition." -Belles LettresBlack women have been writing and publishing fiction for more than a century ...
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Art Journal, 1993
What arguments-drawing upon forgotten eighteenth-century religious, educational, medical, and artistic polemics-might be mustered today to justify perceptual expertise? What proof can be offered to show that a specialization in visualization is not just a deceitful craft?
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What arguments-drawing upon forgotten eighteenth-century religious, educational, medical, and artistic polemics-might be mustered today to justify perceptual expertise? What proof can be offered to show that a specialization in visualization is not just a deceitful craft?
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Conjuring Imposters: The Extraordinary Illusions of Mundanity
2021This chapter examines how entertainment magic and the notion of impostering can inform each other. It does so through considering how assessments of skill and perception are constituted in interactions between performers and audiences. A main plank of the argument derives from a self-study of the acquisition of skill.
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The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales
MELUS, 1999Melanie Levinson +2 more
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The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales.
The Journal of American History, 1995Eric J. Sundquist +3 more
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2016
The promise of magic has always commanded the human imagination, but the story of industrial modernity is usually seen as a process of disenchantment. Drawing on the writings and performances of the so-called 'Golden Age Magicians' from the turn of the twentieth century, Chris Goto-Jones unveils the ways in which European and North American encounters ...
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The promise of magic has always commanded the human imagination, but the story of industrial modernity is usually seen as a process of disenchantment. Drawing on the writings and performances of the so-called 'Golden Age Magicians' from the turn of the twentieth century, Chris Goto-Jones unveils the ways in which European and North American encounters ...
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2019
This chapter discusses how African Americans tried to harness the magic of the southern railroad and how white southerners tried to circumscribe this power. It opens with a discussion of the myth of Black Ulysses and black folk songs to show how black men would “conjure the railroad” and invoke its magic as they toiled to build lines and moves into a ...
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This chapter discusses how African Americans tried to harness the magic of the southern railroad and how white southerners tried to circumscribe this power. It opens with a discussion of the myth of Black Ulysses and black folk songs to show how black men would “conjure the railroad” and invoke its magic as they toiled to build lines and moves into a ...
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