Wizards and scientists : explorations in Afro-Cuban modernity and tradition /
In "Wizards and Scientists" Stephan Palmie 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 repr...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press,
2002.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: evidence and presence, spectral and other
- Introduction
- 1. "For Reasons of History": Jose Antonio Aponte and His Libro de Pinturas
- 2. Genealogies of Morality: The Afro-Cuban Nganga as Wage Laborer, Slave, and Maroon
- 3. Una Salaci6n Cientifica: The Work of Witchcraft and Science in Cuban Modernity
- - Epilogue: Carnal Knowledge
- - Appendix: Aponte's Library.