Interview: Obeah’s cultural politics – a conversation with Diana Paton

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Notes on contributors

Toni Wall Jaudon is an Assistant Professor of English at Hendrix College. Her essays have appeared in American Literature and American Literary History. Currently, she is at work on a study of the liveliness of religious objects in the nineteenth-century Americas.

Kelly Wisecup is an Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University. She is the author of Medical Encounters: Knowledge and Identity in Early American Literatures (University of Massachusetts Press, 2013) and the editor of “Good News from New England” by Edward Winslow: A Scholarly Edition (University of Massachusetts Press, 2014).

Notes

1. Paton and Forde, “Introduction,” 20.

2. For example, see Bilby and Handler, “On the Early Use”; ibid., “Obeah: Healing and Protection”; and ibid., Enacting Power.

3. See Palmié, “Other Powers.”

4. Edwards, History, Civil and Commercial.