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Wizards and Scientists
Stephan Palmié
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Description for Wizards and Scientists
paperback. Offers a corrective to existing historiography on the Caribbean, that focuses on developments in Afro-Cuban religious culture to demonstrate that traditional Caribbean cultural practices are steeped in the same history that produced modernity and represent complex hybrid formations. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJC; HRA; JFSL3; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 652.
In Wizards and Scientists Stephan Palmié offers a corrective to the existing historiography on the Caribbean. Focusing on developments in Afro-Cuban religious culture, he demonstrates that traditional Caribbean cultural practices are part and parcel of the same history that produced modernity and that both represent complexly interrelated hybrid formations. Palmié argues that the standard narrative trajectory from tradition to modernity, and from passion to reason, is a violation of the synergistic processes through which historically specific, moral communities develop the cultural forms that integrate them.
Highlighting the ways that Afro-Cuban discourses serve as a means of moral analysis of social ... Read more
In Wizards and Scientists Stephan Palmié offers a corrective to the existing historiography on the Caribbean. Focusing on developments in Afro-Cuban religious culture, he demonstrates that traditional Caribbean cultural practices are part and parcel of the same history that produced modernity and that both represent complexly interrelated hybrid formations. Palmié argues that the standard narrative trajectory from tradition to modernity, and from passion to reason, is a violation of the synergistic processes through which historically specific, moral communities develop the cultural forms that integrate them.
Highlighting the ways that Afro-Cuban discourses serve as a means of moral analysis of social ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822328421
SKU
V9780822328421
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About Stephan Palmié
Stephan Palmié is Assistant Professor of Caribbean History at the University of Maryland.
Reviews for Wizards and Scientists
“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 ... Read more