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Over a lifetime of studying Cuban Santeria and other religions related to Orisha worship - a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa. This title provides an analysis of these assumptions, in the process offering an incisive critique both of the anthropology of religion and of scholarship on the cultural history of Afro-Atlantic World.

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"The Cooking of History is an extraordinary contribution to the study of Africa and its New World diaspora, the most important book published in this field during recent decades. Stephan Palmie shows the possibilities of a historical anthropology not derived from or contingent on the originary program of Melville Herskovits. The work accounts for the increasing complexity of the African diaspora and its increasing pertinence - or perhaps I should say impertinence - in the ways anthropologists and historians study and represent the world." (David William Cohen, University of Michigan)"

The Cooking of History How Not to Study AfroCuban

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/06/2013
      ISBN13: 9780226019567, 978-0226019567
      ISBN10: 022601956X
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      Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Indigenous peoples: religions

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Over a lifetime of studying Cuban Santeria and other religions related to Orisha worship - a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa. This title provides an analysis of these assumptions, in the process offering an incisive critique both of the anthropology of religion and of scholarship on the cultural history of Afro-Atlantic World.

      Trade Review
      "The Cooking of History is an extraordinary contribution to the study of Africa and its New World diaspora, the most important book published in this field during recent decades. Stephan Palmie shows the possibilities of a historical anthropology not derived from or contingent on the originary program of Melville Herskovits. The work accounts for the increasing complexity of the African diaspora and its increasing pertinence - or perhaps I should say impertinence - in the ways anthropologists and historians study and represent the world." (David William Cohen, University of Michigan)"

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