Introduction
William C. Olsen and Thomas Csordas
PART I: EVIL AND ANTHROPOLOGY
Chapter 1. From Theodicy to Homodicy: Evil as an Anthropological Problem
Thomas Csordas
Chapter 2. On the Concept of "Evil" in Anthropological Analyses and Political Violence
Byron Good
PART II: EVIL AND SUFFERING
Chapter 3. Speak No Evil: Inversion and Evasion in Indonesia
Andrew Beatty
Chapter 4. Mother Evil in Hell Valley: A Creole Transvalorisation of Evil in Trinidad
Roland Littlewood
Chapter 5. Satan on the Old Kent Road: Articulations of Evil in a Pentecostal Diaspora
Simon Coleman
Chapter 6. The Transformation of Evil in Nepal
David Gellner
Chapter 7. Radical Evil and the Notion of Conscience: A Buddhist Meditation on Christian Soteriology
Gananath Obeyesekere
Chapter 8. Are Spirits Satanic? The Ambiguity of Evil in Niger
Adeline Masqulier
PART III: EVIL AND VIOLENCE
Chapter 9. Engaging Evil and Excess in Palestine / Israel
Julie Peteet
Chapter 10. The Violence of Evil: A Biocultural Approach to Violence, Memory, and Pain
Ventura Perez
Chapter 11. The Intention of Evil: Asram in Asante
William C. Olsen
Chapter 12. Monsters, Sadists, and the Unspectacular Torture Experience
Nerina Weiss
Afterword
David Parkin
