Hidden Powers of State in the Cuban Imagination

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Despite its hard-nosed emphasis on the demystifying realism of Marxist-Leninist ideology, the political imagery of the Cuban revolution--and the state that followed--conjures up its own magical seductions and fantasies of power. In this fascinating account, Kenneth Routon shows how magic practices a...

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Autor principal: Routon, Kenneth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Florida : University Press of Florida, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Socialism.
Politics and government
Political culture.
Exceptionalism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > Cuba.
Exceptionnalisme > Cuba.
Exceptionalism > Cuba.
Socialism > Cuba.
Political culture > Cuba.
Cuba.
Cuba > Politique et gouvernement > 1990-
Cuba > Politique et gouvernement > 1959-1990.
Cuba > Politics and government > 1990-
Cuba > Politics and government > 1959-1990.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Despite its hard-nosed emphasis on the demystifying realism of Marxist-Leninist ideology, the political imagery of the Cuban revolution--and the state that followed--conjures up its own magical seductions and fantasies of power. In this fascinating account, Kenneth Routon shows how magic practices and political culture are entangled in Cuba in unusual and intimate ways. Routon describes not only how the monumentality of the state arouses magical sensibilities and popular images of its hidden powers, but he also explores the ways in which revolutionary officialdom has, in recent years, tacitl.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (216 pages).
ISBN:9780813043180

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