Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order PDF
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Ethnographies of Suspicion in the NewWorld Order edited by harry g. west and todd sanders DukeUniversityPress DurhamandLondon 2003 2003dukeuniversitypress © Allrightsreserved.PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericaon acid-freepaper(cid:2).DesignedbyAmyRuthBuchanan.TypesetinSabon byTsengInformationSystems,Inc.LibraryofCongressCataloging-in- PublicationDataappearonthelastprintedpageofthisbook. Acknowledgments vii PowerRevealedandConcealedintheNewWorldOrder todd sanders and harry g. west 1 1 Gods,Markets,andtheIMFintheKoreanSpiritWorld laurel kendall 38 2 ‘‘DiabolicRealities’’:NarrativesofConspiracy, Transparency,and‘‘RitualMurder’’intheNigerian PopularPrintandElectronicMedia misty l. bastian 65 3 ‘‘WhoRulesUsNow?’’IdentityTokens,Sorcery,and OtherMetaphorsinthe1994MozambicanElections harry g. west 92 4 ThroughaGlassDarkly:Charity,Conspiracy, andPowerinNewOrderIndonesia albert schrauwers 125 5 InvisibleHandsandVisibleGoods:Revealedand ConcealedEconomiesinMillennialTanzania todd sanders 148 6 StalinandtheBlueElephant:Paranoiaand ComplicityinPost-CommunistMetahistories caroline humphrey 175 7 Paranoia,Conspiracy,andHegemony inAmericanPolitics daniel hellinger 204 8 MakingWanga:RealityConstructionsand theMagicalManipulationofPower karen mccarthy brown 233 9 AnxietiesofInfluence:ConspiracyTheory andTherapeuticCultureinMillennialAmerica susan harding and kathleen stewart 258 TransparentFictions;or,TheConspiracies ofaLiberalImagination:AnAfterword jean comaroff and john comaroff 287 Contributors 301 Index 305 Acknowledgments Thisvolumeistheproductofaworkshop,entitled‘‘Transparency andConspiracy:PowerRevealedandConcealedin(the)GlobalVillage(s),’’ heldon28and29May1999intheDepartmentofAnthropologyattheLon- don School of Economics and Political Science (lse). The workshop was organized by Harry G.West and Todd Sanders, with administrative assis- tancefromMargaretBothwellandAnnickSaliman.Draftpaperswerepre- sentedattheworkshopbyLaurelKendall,MistyBastian,HarryWest,Todd Sanders, Daniel Hellinger, and Karen McCarthy Brown (whose essays are includedinthisvolume)aswellasbyNancyScheper-Hughes,NancyRies, Richard Tapper, and Tamara Teghillo. Jean and John Comaroff provided stimulating commentary in their role as discussants in the workshop and contributed an afterword to the volume. Additional papers were later so- licitedfromAlbertSchrauwers,CarolineHumphrey,andSusanHardingand KathleenStewart.InstitutionalsupportwasprovidedbytheDepartmentof Anthropology at the lse and, in particular, by the department convenor, Chris Fuller. Foradditional financial support, we thank the Economic and Social Research Council and the SuntoryToyota International Centres for EconomicsandRelatedDisciplines.WewishtothankErinKochforherhelp preparingtheindex.Finally,wearegratefultothetwoanonymousreview- ers,arrangedbyDukeUniversityPress,whoprovidedengagedandinsightful commentaryonthemanuscript. transparent(transpaˆr´ent,-par´-),adj.1.havingthe propertyoftransmittingraysoflightthroughits substancessothatbodiessituatedbeyondorbehind canbedistinctlyseen,asopposedtoopaque,and usuallydistinguishedfromtranslucent.2.easilyseen through,recognized,ordetected.3.easilyunderstood; manifest;obvious.4.candid;frank;open. Therecanbenodoubtthatdistrustofwordsisless harmfulthanunwarrantedtrustinthem.Besides,to distrustwords,andindictthemforthehorrorsthat mightslumberunobtrusivelywithinthem—isn’tthis, afterall,thetruevocationoftheintellectual? —VáclavHavel(December1989) TakeawhiffoftheNewWorldOdor —SigndisplayedinawindowinMadison,Wisconsin,on thefirstdayoftheU.S.militaryoperationDesertStorm
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