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Book SynopsisVisitors to Cuba will notice that Afro-Cuban figures and references are everywhere. The author examines how the animation of Cuba's colonial past and African heritage through such figures and performances not only reflects but also shapes the Cuban experience of Blackness.
Trade Review"Performing Afro-Cuba is a remarkable achievement. To put Wirtz's argument in a nutshell would be to do a gross injustice to her sophisticated-and often quite elegant-exposition. She is simply the smartest and theoretically most sophisticated anthropologist doing research in Cuba these days. But aside from her contribution to the regionalist literature, the real value of her work is that it speaks to enduring anthropological questions, while raising a number of new ones that are relevant far beyond her specific field site. I enthusiastically recommend it." (Stephan Palmie, author of The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion)"
