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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Palmié, Stephan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
CUBA
University of South Alabama
Black people > Cuba > Religion.
Personnes noires > Cuba > Religion.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Black people > Religion
Civilization > Foreign influences
Religion
Afroamerikanischer Synkretismus
Moderne
Sklaverei
Hexerei
Ahnenkult
Santería
Palo Monte
Kubaner
Godsdienst.
Religieuze gebruiken.
Moderniteit.
Cuba > Religion.
Cuba > Civilization > Foreign influences.
Cuba > Civilisation > Influence étrangère.
Cuba
USA
Kuba.
Kubaner.
Cuba > Religión.
Cuba > Civilización > Influencias occidentales.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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