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Enchanting Martinique (French) 2024

Author : J - Weikeson
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Enchanting Martinique (French) 2024 written by J - Weikeson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on an immersive visual odyssey through the captivating pages of "Discovering Martinique." This exquisitely crafted travel guide transcends the ordinary, offering an extraordinary glimpse into the enchanting allure of this Caribbean gem. Brimming with vibrant imagery and evocative descriptions, this book is a gateway to an island paradise. Delve into the heart of Martinique's diverse landscapes, where azure waters caress pristine shores adorned with powdery white sands, creating postcard-perfect beaches like Les Salines. Feel the pulse of nature at Mount Pelée, an iconic volcano boasting majestic panoramas that stir the soul. Explore the island's cultural tapestry woven with historical threads, from the haunting remnants of Saint-Pierre's volcanic ruins to the bustling vibrancy of Fort-de-France's waterfront. Witness the harmonious blend of tradition and modernity as cobblestone streets intertwine with contemporary cityscapes. Lose yourself in the verdant embrace of Jardin de Balata, a botanical wonderland teeming with exotic flora, offering respite amid a kaleidoscope of colors. Traverse the rugged terrain of Les Gorges de la Falaise, where cascading waterfalls punctuate lush greenery, painting an untamed, natural masterpiece. Capture the essence of heritage at Habitation Clément, where the rich history of a rum distillery and plantation unfolds against a backdrop of colonial elegance and tropical splendor. Immerse yourself in Anse Cafard's poignant memorial sculptures, a testament to resilience amid the seas' tumultuous whispers. Each page of "Discovering Martinique" is a portal to a new adventure, evoking wanderlust and igniting a longing to traverse the island's nooks and crannies. Revel in the sun-kissed charm of Diamond Rock, an imposing geological marvel rising majestically from crystalline waters, offering a surreal tableau against the horizon. From the quaint fishing villages of Les Anses d'Arlet, where colorful cottages line pristine shores, to the mesmerizing cultural tapestry woven through traditional music and dance, this book is an invitation to experience Martinique's soul. Bringing together history, culture, nature, and leisure, "Discovering Martinique" transcends mere visuals; it's a sensory journey, an ode to the island's magnificence. Through eloquent prose and captivating imagery, this guidebook captures the essence of a destination that captivates the heart and leaves an indelible mark on the traveler's soul.

The Rose of Martinique

Author : Andrea Stuart
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555847420
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book The Rose of Martinique written by Andrea Stuart and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed biography of Josephine Bonaparte, the Caribbean-born Creole who became the first wife of Napoleon and Empress of France. One of the most remarkable women of the modern era, Josephine Bonaparte was born Rose de Tasher on her family’s sugar plantation in Martinique. She embodied all the characteristics of a true Creole—sensuality, vivacity, and willfulness. Rescued from near starvation, she grew to epitomize the wild decadence of post-revolutionary Paris. It was there that Josephine first caught the eye of Napoleon Bonaparte. A true partner to Napoleon, she was equal parts political adviser, hostess par excellence, confidante, and passionate lover. Josephine managed to be in the forefront of every important episode of her era’s turbulent history: from the rise of the West Indian slave plantations that bankrolled Europe’s rapid economic development, to the decaying of the ancien régime, to the French Revolution itself, from which she barely escaped the guillotine. Using diaries and letters, Andrea Stuart brings her so utterly to life that we finally understand why Napoleon’s last word before dying was the name he had given her: Josephine. “A comprehensive and truly empathetic biography. Andrea Stuart, who was raised in the Caribbean, combines scholarly distance with a genuine attempt to understand her heroine.” —The Washington Post

The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2024

Author : Bob Sehlinger
Publisher : The Unofficial Guides
ISBN 13 : 1628091444
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2024 written by Bob Sehlinger and published by The Unofficial Guides. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Save time and money with in-depth reviews, ratings, and details from the trusted source for a successful Walt Disney World vacation. How do some guests get on the big, new attraction in less than 20 minutes while others wait for longer than 2 hours—on the same day? Why do some guests pay full price for their visit when others can save hundreds of dollars? In a theme park, every minute and every dollar count. Your vacation is too important to be left to chance, so put the best-selling independent guide to Walt Disney World in your hands and take control of your trip. The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2024 explains how Walt Disney World works and how to use that knowledge to stay ahead of the crowd. Authors Bob Sehlinger and Len Testa know that you want your vacation to be anything but average, so they employ an expert team of researchers to find the secrets, the shortcuts, and the bargains that are sure to make your vacation exceptional! Find out what’s available in every category, ranked from best to worst, and get detailed plans to make the most of your time at Walt Disney World. Stay at a top-rated hotel, eat at the best restaurants, and experience all the most popular attractions. Keep in the know on the latest updates and changes at Walt Disney World. Here’s what’s NEW in the 2024 book: Learn when to visit Walt Disney World to get lower crowds and bigger hotel discounts Find insider coverage of the Magic Kingdom’s new TRON Lightcycle/Run coaster, including how to save time in line Read a review of EPCOT’s new Journey of Water, inspired by Moana Get tips on playing EPCOT’s new DuckTales World Showcase Adventure game Take in the latest on Disney programs such as Early Theme Park Entry Successfully navigate Disney’s ridiculously complicated admissions, transportation, and Genie+ and Lightning Lane reservations systems Uncover the newest, best places for ticket and hotel deals Save more with information on discounted stroller rentals, car rentals, and vacation homes Preview the new tower building at Disney’s Polynesian Resort Utilize new touring plans to save the most time in line at every Disney park Discover the highest-rated rooms and buildings to ask for at every Disney resort Make the right choices to give your family a vacation they’ll never forget. The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2024 is your key to planning a perfect stay. Whether you’re putting together your annual trip or preparing for your first visit, this book gives you the insider scoop on hotels, restaurants, attractions, and more.

The Enchantments of Mammon

Author : Eugene McCarraher
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674242777
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Enchantments of Mammon written by Eugene McCarraher and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An extraordinary work of intellectual history as well as a scholarly tour de force, a bracing polemic, and a work of Christian prophecy...McCarraher challenges more than 200 years of post-Enlightenment assumptions about the way we live and work.” —The Observer At least since Max Weber, capitalism has been understood as part of the “disenchantment” of the world, stripping material objects and social relations of their mystery and magic. In this magisterial work, Eugene McCarraher challenges this conventional view. Capitalism, he argues, is full of sacrament, whether one is prepared to acknowledge it or not. First flowering in the fields and factories of England and brought to America by Puritans and evangelicals, whose doctrine made ample room for industry and profit, capitalism has become so thoroughly enmeshed in the fabric of our society that our faith in “the market” has become sacrosanct. Informed by cultural history and theology as well as management theory, The Enchantments of Mammon looks to nineteenth-century Romantics, whose vision of labor combined reason, creativity, and mutual aid, for salvation. In this impassioned challenge to some of our most firmly held assumptions, McCarraher argues that capitalism has hijacked our intrinsic longing for divinity—and urges us to break its hold on our souls. “A majestic achievement...It is a work of great moral and spiritual intelligence, and one that invites contemplation about things we can’t afford not to care about deeply.” —Commonweal “More brilliant, more capacious, and more entertaining, page by page, than his most ardent fans dared hope. The magnitude of his accomplishment—an account of American capitalism as a religion...will stun even skeptical readers.” —Christian Century

Becoming Josephine

Author : Heather Webb
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101634995
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Josephine written by Heather Webb and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping historical debut about the Creole socialite who transformed herself into an empress Readers are fascinated with the wives of famous men. In Becoming Josephine, debut novelist Heather Webb follows Rose Tascher as she sails from her Martinique plantation to Paris, eager to enjoy an elegant life at the royal court. Once there, however, Rose’s aristocratic soldier-husband dashes her dreams by abandoning her amid the tumult of the French Revolution. After narrowly escaping death, Rose reinvents herself as Josephine, a beautiful socialite wooed by an awkward suitor—Napoleon Bonaparte. “A debut as bewitching as its protagonist.” —Erika Robuck, author of Hemingway’s Girl and Call Me Zelda “Vivid and passionate.” —Susan Spann, author of The Shinobi Mysteries From the Trade Paperback edition.

Decors Barbares

Author : Nathalie Farman-Farma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780865653894
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book Decors Barbares written by Nathalie Farman-Farma and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A refreshing antidote to the contrived nature of much contemporary interior design, the textiles and decoration of Nathalie Farman-Farma have gained a devoted following among celebrity and socialite clients for their folkloric charm and romantic exuberance. Drawing on the enchantment of fairytales and a history of material culture spanning Persia, Central Asia and Russia, Farman-Farma employs traditional print-making techniques to create exquisitely detailed fabrics, which she uses to conjure interiors infused with warmth and natural charisma. Farman-Farma's townhouse and studio in London and her family homes in Connecticut and Lake Tahoe feature in this captivating volume, forming the backdrop for her Décors Barbares range of fabrics, as well as her vast collection of antique textiles, costumes and jewellery. Vogue has called Farman-Farma "the textile designer you need to know." Her clients include Lauren Santo Domingo, Tory Burch, and influential interior designer David Netto, who writes the foreword to this book"--

Texaco

Author : Patrick Chamoiseau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783784349
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Texaco written by Patrick Chamoiseau and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Josephine

Author : Andrea Stuart
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447204735
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Josephine written by Andrea Stuart and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘It’s a story worthy of a blockbuster novel, and it’s all true. Oodles of sex, passion, adultery, media hype, decadence, plots, murder, mayhem, anguish and betrayal fill these pages . . . an enjoyable, well-researched book; I didn’t want to reach the end’ Edwina Currie, New Statesman Books of the Year One of the most potent icons of female sexuality, Josephine has largely been reduced to an empty cipher, wife to her more famous husband and the butt of one of the oldest jokes around. Yet as Andrea Stuart shows, the girl who grew up on the beautiful island of Martinique endured Caribbean slave revolts, an arranged marriage, and the threat of the guillotine before she even met the man who made her Empress of France. In the grip of turbulent times, Josephine used her intelligence and her allure to forge her way in a Paris that raged and fought and danced its way through revolution and empire. This is the thrilling story of her strength, survival and ultimate transformation.

Grenada

Author : Paul Crask
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 1784770620
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Grenada written by Paul Crask and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2017-11-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Caribbean-based writer and photographer Paul Crask, this new, thoroughly updated third edition of Bradt's Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique is the only standalone guide available to this alluring Caribbean destination. With insider knowledge of the islands, from luxurious villas and resorts to pastoral villages and mountain trails, Bradt's Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique is rich in detail, local colour and practical information, and offers detailed accommodation, dining and activities listings as well as the author's own take on how to maximise your stay. Whether you are into sailing, scuba diving wrecks and reefs, kayaking through mangrove forests, hiking mountain trails, 'jumping-up' at carnival, or sampling vintage rums at historic distilleries and luxurious beachside resorts, Bradt's Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique is ideal for travellers of all kinds. This new edition covers the many developments on the islands in the past few years. Investment in accommodation on Grenada continues and the diversity of options is impressive: from the new Sandals resort to the Rumboat Retreat, a lodge that welcomes independent travellers as well as rum enthusiasts. More airlines now fly directly to Grenada's Maurice Bishop International Airport and the annual sailing regattas continue to attract a large international gathering. With easy access to and from North America and Europe, and with plenty of great accommodation and dining options, scenic Grenada offers a perfect blend of traditional island life with modern Caribbean living. Grenada is a tri-island nation famed for its nutmeg and cocoa, sailing regattas, jaw-dropping beaches and strong cultural traditions. The main island, Grenada, has a tall spine of forested mountain ridges surrounded by rivers, waterfalls and farmlands, and the scenic coastline is replete with secluded bays and anchorages. To the north, at the southern tip of the Grenadines island chain, Carriacou and Petite Martinique are tranquil and beautiful. Noted for traditions of Big Drum Dance and boat building, both islands enjoy deserted beaches and coral reefs and offer a warm and friendly welcome.

Engagements with Aimé Césaire

Author : Jason Allen-Paisant
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192867229
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Engagements with Aimé Césaire written by Jason Allen-Paisant and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this inventive and thoughtful study, renowned poet Jason Allen-Paisant provides a timely critical reappraisal of Aimé Césaire's works. The book showcases Césaire as a major Black thinker, whose writings remain deeply relevant to today's crises and debates.

Things That Art

Author : Lochlann Jain
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487570562
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Things That Art written by Lochlann Jain and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lochlann Jain’s debut non-fiction graphic novel, Things That Art, playfully interrogates the order of things. Toying with the relationship between words and images, Jain’s whimsical compositions may seem straightforward. Upon closer inspection, however, the drawings reveal profound and startling paradoxes at the heart of how we make sense of the world. Commentaries by architect and theorist Maria McVarish, poet and naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield, musician and English Professor Drew Daniel, and the author offer further insight into the drawings in this collection. A captivating look at the fundamental absurdities of everyday communication, Things That Art jolts us toward new forms of collation and collaboration.

Slave Old Man

Author : Patrick Chamoiseau
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620972964
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Slave Old Man written by Patrick Chamoiseau and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "heart-stopping" (The Millions), "richly layered" (Brooklyn Rail), "haunting, beautiful" (BuzzFeed) story of an escaped captive and the killer hound that pursues him "Slave Old Man is a cloudburst of a novel, swift and compressed—but every page pulses, blood-warm. . . . The prose is so electrifyingly synesthetic that, on more than one occasion, I found myself stopping to rub my eyes in disbelief." —Parul Sehgal, The New York Times Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Patrick Chamoiseau's Slave Old Man was published to accolades in hardcover in a brilliant translation by Linda Coverdale, winning the French-American Foundation Translation Prize and chosen as a Publishers WeeklyBest Book of 2018. Now in paperback, Slave Old Man is a gripping, profoundly unsettling story of an elderly enslaved person's daring escape into the wild from a plantation in Martinique, with his enslaver and a fearsome hound on his heels. We follow them into a lush rain forest where nature is beyond all human control: sinister, yet entrancing and even exhilarating, because the old man's flight to freedom will transform them all in truly astonishing—even otherworldly—ways, as the overwhelming physical presence of the forest reshapes reality and time itself. Chamoiseau's exquisitely rendered new novel is an adventure for all time, one that fearlessly portrays the demonic cruelties of the slave trade and its human costs in vivid, sometimes hallucinatory prose. Offering a loving and mischievous tribute to the Creole culture of early nineteenth-century Martinique, this novel takes us on a unique and moving journey into the heart of Caribbean history.

Desiring Whiteness

Author : Caroline Séquin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501777041
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Desiring Whiteness written by Caroline Séquin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desiring Whiteness uncovers the intertwined histories of commercial sex and racial politics in France and the French Empire. Since the French Revolution of 1789, the absence of laws banning interracial marriages has served to reinforce two myths about modern France—first, that it is a sexual democracy and second, it is a color-blind nation where all French citizens can freely marry whomever they wish regardless of their race. Caroline Séquin challenges the narrative of French exceptionalism by revealing the role of prostitution regulation in policing intimate relationships across racial and colonial boundaries in the century following the abolition of slavery. Desiring Whiteness traces the rise and fall of the "French model" of prostitution policing in the "contact zones" of port cities and garrison towns across France and in Dakar, Senegal, the main maritime entry point of French West Africa. Séquin describes how the regulation of prostitution covertly policed racial relations and contributed to the making of white French identity in an imperial nation-state that claimed to be race-blind. She also examines how sex industry workers exploited, reinforced, or transgressed the racial boundaries of colonial rule. Brothels served as "gatekeepers of whiteness" in two arenas. In colonial Senegal, white-only brothels helped deter French colonists from entering unions with African women and producing mixed-race children, thus consolidating white minority rule. In the metropole, brothels condoned interracial sex with white sex workers while dissuading colonial men from forming long-term attachments with white French women. Ultimately, brothels followed a similar racial logic that contributed to upholding white supremacy.

Islands of Eden

Author : Ferenc Mate
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 092025683X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Islands of Eden written by Ferenc Mate and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mesmerizing journey through a chain of tropical islands in a little known part of the Eastern Caribbean. The peaceful azure waters, lagoons, untouched rainforests and stunning white sand beaches will have you packing your bags to leave the world behind. There is a country of small islands in the West Indies, lost in time. Its mountainous terrain has helped in keeping its vast natural beauty intact. Thirty two islands with mystical names like Bequia and Mustique, St Vincent and the Grenadines is in the most blessed part of the Caribbean—dramatic mountains and beaches, fertile soil and plentiful rain. This idyllic setting has nurtured a gentle and simple way life yet one rich in adventure, social contact, and a dazzling variety of locally grown cuisine. Explore the rare flora, taste the fresh fruits, local fish and spices, and partake in Vincentian “liming” —sharing food, drink, jokes and anecdotes, with no other intent than enjoying life. This collection of breathtaking photographs will revitalize both body and soul.

Poisoned Relations

Author : Chelsea Berry
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512826502
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Poisoned Relations written by Chelsea Berry and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time of the opening of the Atlantic world in the fifteenth century, Europeans and Atlantic Africans had developed significantly different cultural idioms for and understandings of poison. Europeans considered poison a gendered “weapon of the weak” while Africans viewed it as an abuse by the powerful. Though distinct, both idioms centered on fraught power relationships. When translated to the slave societies of the Americas, these understandings sometimes clashed in conflicting interpretations of alleged poisoning events. In Poisoned Relations, Chelsea Berry illuminates the competing understandings of poison and power in the Atlantic World. Poison was connected to central concerns of life: to the well-being in this world for oneself and one’s relatives; to the morality and use of power; and to the fraught relationships that bound people together. The social and relational nature of ideas about poison meant that the power struggles that emerged in poison cases, while unfolding in the extreme context of slavery, were not solely between enslavers and the enslaved—they also involved social conflict within enslaved communities. Poisoned Relations examines more than five hundred investigations and trials in four colonial contexts—British Virginia, French Martinique, Portuguese Bahia, and the Dutch Guianas—bringing a groundbreaking application of historical linguistics to bear on the study of the African diaspora in the Americas. Illuminating competing understandings of poison and power in this way, Berry opens new avenues of evidence through which to navigate the violence of colonial archival silences.

Army-Navy-Air Force Register and Defense Times

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Modern Enchantments

Author : Simon During
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674013711
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Modern Enchantments written by Simon During and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic, During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's work gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts—and by “magic,” During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows—affect people?