Domestic Demons and the Intimate Uncanny

Thomas G. Kirsch is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Konstanz, Germany.Kirsten Mahlke is Professor of Cultural Theory at the Department of Literature at the University of Konstanz, Germany.Rijk van Dijk is Professor of Religion in Contemporary Africa and its Diaspora at the African Studies Centre Leiden, Leiden University, the Netherlands.

• 1 Introduction: Hedging in Demons and the UncannyThomas G. Kirsch, Kirsten Mahlke, and Rijk van Dijk2 The Familiar Spirit in Tales of Violent Labor Relationships: From Early Modern: France to Agro-Industrial ArgentinaKirsten Mahlke 3 Collective Intimacy in Pentecostal ChristianityThomas G. Kirsch 4 Science, Fantasy, and Desecration: Gorilla Demons in Colonial GabonFlorence Bernault5 From Witchcraft to Satanism: Changing Imaginations and New Experiences in the South African LowveldIsak Niehaus 6 Is Digital Memory Our New Demon? Notes on Surveillance and VulnerabilitySilvana Mandolessi 7 Marriage and the Ambiguities of ‘Seeds’: An Exploration of Intentions and Transparency in Relations in BotswanaRijk van Dijk and Senzokuhle Doreen Setume8 Zombies in the House: Thinking through the Spaces of Undead Transatlantic HistoryGudrun Rath9 Hedging in the Demonic: Living with the Dead in the United StatesEhler Voss 10 Afterword: Uncanny Modernities, Early and LateJean Comaroff