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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...

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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.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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.