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

Stephan Palmié

Published by Duke University Press 2002

Wizards and Scientists

Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition

Stephan Palmié

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822383642

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About this book

Questions the disciplinary assumptions of history and anthropology, and Western claims to “own” modernity, using Cuba and Afro-Cuban religion as a case study.

Author / Editor information

Stephan Palmié is Assistant Professor of Caribbean History at the University of Maryland.

Reviews

“Wizards and Scientists is a tour de force. Palmié’s material is extraordinarily interesting and original and his theoretical explorations are virtuosic. This work will become a new benchmark for scholarship on modernity and the Atlantic world.”—Rosalind Shaw, Tufts University

“Palmié unlocks and explores the fascinating world of oracle and historical divination in loving detail and with unrivaled narrative power. Wizards and Scientists is an extraordinary achievement.”—Robert A. Hill, University of California, Los Angeles

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Prologue: Evidence and Presence, Spectral and Other Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
1. ‘‘For Reasons of History’’: José Antonio Aponte and His Libro de Pinturas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
2. Genealogies of Morality: The Afro-Cuban Nganga as Wage Laborer, Slave, and Maroon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
3. Una Salación Científica: The Work of Witchcraft and Science in Cuban Modernity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Epilogue: Carnal Knowledge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
Appendix: Aponte’s Library Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	290
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353
Permissions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	391

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 412

eBook

Published: March 19, 2002
ISBN: 9780822383642