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.