Florence Bernault is Professor of African History at Sciences Po¿(Paris);¿Emerita Professor of African History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; author of Démocraties ambigües en Afrique centrale: Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, 1940–1965; and editor of A History of Prison¿and Confinement in Africa.

Preface  ix
Introduction  1
1. A Siren, an Empty Shrine, and a Photograph  27
2. The Double Life of Charms  69
3. Carnal Fetishism  96
4. The Value of People  118
5. Cannibal Mirrors  138
6. Eating  168
Conclusion  194
Notes  205
Bibliography  293
Index  321

Florence Bernault is Professor of African History at Sciences Po (Paris); Emerita Professor of African History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; author of Démocraties ambigües en Afrique centrale: Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, 1940–1965; and editor of A History of Prison and Confinement in Africa.