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020			_a9781478031734
028			_aRaghav Books Pvt. Ltd _bA-184, A, Nand Gram, Ghaziabad _c871 _d21/08/2025
082			_a130.9 WIE
100			_aWiener, Margaret J.
100			_aStengers, Isabelle.
245			_aMagic’s Translations _b: Reality Politics in Colonial Indonesia. _c/ Margaret J. Wiener.
260			_a, London _b: Duke University Press _c, 2025.
300			_ax, 322p. _c: 24cm.
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520			_a“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.
650			_aReality Politics
650			_aPolitics in Colonial Indonesia
650			_aMagic
700			_aMargaret J. Wiener
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