T. Landry

Collaborating with Existence: Conjure, Imagination, and Magical Dynamism in Vodún

This article draws on my apprenticeship with a conjurer in southern Bénin to explore the ways in which objects are experienced as living beings whose capacities emerge from their social histories rather than from their symbolic resonance. In Bénin Fon conjurers assemble magical entities by drawing on the memories, re...