Magic’s Translations (Record no. 66068)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781478031734
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd
Distributor address A-184, A, Nand Gram, Ghaziabad
Bill Number 871
Bill Date 21/08/2025
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 130.9 WIE
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Wiener, Margaret J.
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Stengers, Isabelle.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Magic’s Translations
Remainder of title : Reality Politics in Colonial Indonesia.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Margaret J. Wiener.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Duke University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2025.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent x, 322p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 1733
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc “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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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Reality Politics
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Politics in Colonial Indonesia
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Magic
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Margaret J. Wiener
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 03/09/2025 Raghav Books Pvt. Ptd. 1733.00   130.9 WIE 31106 03/09/2025 03/09/2025 Books
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