Wizards and scientists : explorations in Afro-Cuban modernity and tradition / / Stephan Palmié

• Autore: Palmié Stephan
• Pubblicazione: Durham [N.C.], : Duke University Press, 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (413 p.)
• Disciplina: 306/.097291
• Soggetto topico: Black people - Cuba - Religion
• Soggetto geografico: Cuba Religion; Cuba Civilization Western influences
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-388) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Prologue: evidence and presence, spectral and other -- 1. For reasons of history: José Antonio Aponte and his Libro de pinturas. -- 2. Genealogies of morality: The Afro-Cuban Nganga as wage laborer, slave, and maroon -- 3. Una salación científica: the work of witchcraft and science in Cuban modernity -- Epilogue: carnal knowledge -- Appendix: Aponte's library.
• Sommario/riassunto: Questions the disciplinary assumptions of history and anthropology, and Western claims to "own" modernity, using Cuba and Afro-Cuban religion as a case study.
• Altri titoli varianti: Afro-Cuban modernity and tradition; Wizards & scientists
• Titolo autorizzato: Wizards and scientists
• ISBN: 9786612920196; 0-8223-8364-0; 1-282-92019-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996247872103316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: e-Duke books scholarly collection.