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Anthropology of religion

the Comaroffs' term for the use of magical means, or the suspicion of them, to gain wealth in economies where the sources of money seem hidden.

In anthropology of religion, occult economies refers to the Comaroffs' term for the use of magical means, or the suspicion of them, to gain wealth in economies where the sources of money seem hidden. This meaning comes from Comaroff (1999) in American Ethnologist.[1]

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Comaroff, J., & Comaroff, J. L. (1999). Occult economies and the violence of abstraction: notes from the South African postcolony. American Ethnologist, 26(2), 279-303. https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1999.26.2.279

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