Wizards and Scientists - Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition

"Palmie unlocks and explores the fascinating world of oracle and historical divination in loving detail and with unrivaled narrative power. "Wizards and Scientists" is an extraordinary achievement."--Robert A. Hill, University of California, Los Angeles

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue: Evidence and Presence, Spectral and Other
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Introduction

1. “For Reasons of History”: Jose Antonio Aponte and His Libro de Pinturas
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2. Genealogies of Morality: The Afro-Cuban Nganga as Wage Laborer, Slave, and Maroon

3. Una Salacion Cientifica: The Work of Witchcraft and Science in Cuban Modernity

Epilogue: Carnal Knowledge

Appendix: Aponte’s Library

Notes

References

Permissions

Index

About the author

Stephan Palmié

Summary

Offers a corrective to existing historiography on the Caribbean, focusing on developments in Afro-Cuban religious culture to demonstrate that traditional Caribbean cultural practices are steeped in the same history that produced modernity and represent complex hybrid formations.

Product details

• Authors: Palmie, Stephan Palmie, Stephan Palmié, Stephan Palmie
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.03.2002
• EAN: 9780822328285
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2828-5
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 244 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 816 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Anthropologie, Kuba, Religion, allgemein