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

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Palmie, Stephan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2002.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
CUBA
University of South Alabama
Moderniteit.
Religieuze gebruiken.
Godsdienst.
Kubaner
Palo Monte
Santería
Ahnenkult
Hexerei
Sklaverei
Moderne
Afroamerikanischer Synkretismus
Religion
Religion.
Civilization > Foreign influences.
Black people > Religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Black people > Cuba > Religion.
Kubaner.
USA.
Kuba.
Cuba.
Cuba > Civilisation > Influence etrangere.
Cuba > Religion.
Cuba > Civilization > Foreign influences.
Electronic books.
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.

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