The Finish Line

Of everything I've done in the past 23 years, from teething to passing my driver's test on my third try to learning how to make omelets, this is probably my biggest accomplishment so far this year:

Austen, Ralph A. 1993. “The Moral Economy of Witchcraft: An Essay in Comparative History,” in Modernity and its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Postcolonial Africa, Comaroff, J. and J. Comaroff (eds.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 89-110.
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de Sardan, J.P. 1992. “Occultism and the Ethnographic ‘I’: the Exoticizing of Magic from Durkheim to ‘Postmodern’ Anthropology,” Critique of Anthropology 12(1), pp. 5-25.
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Evans-Pritchard, E.E. 1976. Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Favret-Saada, J. and C. Cullen. 1989. “Unbewitching as Therapy,” American Ethnologist 16(1), pp. 40-56.
Geschiere, P. 1997. The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa, Charlottesville: University of Virginia.
Ginzburg, C. 1983. The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Harding, F. 1990. “Performance as Political Action: the Use of Dramatisation in the Formulation of Tiv Ethnic and National Consciousness,” in Self-Assertion and Brokerage: Early Cultural Nationalism in West Africa, de Moraes Farias, P.F. and K. Barber (eds.), University of Birmingham: Centre of West African Studies, pp. 172-195.
Malinowski, B. 1997. “The Role of Magic and Religion” in Reader in Comparative Religion: An Anthropological Approach, Lessa, W. and E. Vogt (eds.), London: Harper and Row, pp. 102-111.
Masquelier, A. 1993. “Narratives of Power, Images of Wealth: The Ritual Economy of Bori in the Market,” in Comaroff, J. and J. Comaroff (eds), Modernity and its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Postcolonial Africa, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 3-33.
Masquelier, A. 1997. “Vectors of Witchcraft: Object Transactions and the Materialization of Memory in Niger,” Anthropological Quarterly 70(4), pp. 187-198.
Moore, H.L. and T. Sanders (eds). 2001. Magical Interpretations, Material Realities: Modernity, Witchcraft, and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa, London: Routledge.
Nash, J. 1993. We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Tin Mines. New York: Columbia University Press.
Rowlands, M. and J.P. Warnier. 1988. “Sorcery, Power, and the Modern State in Cameroon,” Man 23, pp. 118-132.
Shaw, R. 1997. “The Production of Witchcraft/Witchcraft as Production: Memory, Modernity, and the Slave Trade in Sierra Leone,” American Ethnologist 24(4), pp. 856-876.
Smith, D.J. 2001. “Ritual Killing, 419, and Fast Wealth: Inequality and the Popular Imagination in Southeastern Nigeria,” American Ethnologist 28(4), pp. 803-826.
Taussig, M. 1980. The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Taussig, M. 1984. “Culture of Terror, Space of Death: Roger Casement’s Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 26(3), pp. 467-497.
Turner, V. 1970. The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

I'm proofreading as we speak, and then all of my assignments for the term will be done. I just screened Hedwig and Shortbus while putting the finishing touches on the essay (which, incidentally, is about four times longer than it's supposed to be), and I'm actually going to get a solid four hours of sleep before Abby and I catch the bus to Gatwick en route to Morocco. I'm not going to lie, I feel that I've earned it.