Wizards and Scientists Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition

Name: Wizards and Scientists Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition
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ISBN: 9780822328421

ISBN-10: 0822328429

ISBN-13: 9780822328421

Edition: 2002

Authors: Stephan Palmiï¿½, Stephan Palmiï¿½

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Wizards and Scientists demonstrates that traditional Caribbean cultural practices are steeped in the same history that produced modernity and represent complex hybrid formations.

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 3/19/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.73" wide x 8.27" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

Stephan Palmiï¿½ is professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition.



Acknowledgments


Prologue: Evidence and Presence, Spectral and Other


Introduction



"For Reasons of History": Jose Antonio Aponte and His Libro de Pinturas



Genealogies of Morality: The Afro-Cuban Nganga as Wage Laborer, Slave, and Maroon



Una Salacion Cientifica: The Work of Witchcraft and Science in Cuban Modernity


Epilogue: Carnal Knowledge


Appendix: Aponte's Library


Notes


References


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Index