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Book SynopsisOffers a corrective to existing historiography on the Caribbean, focusing 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.
Trade Review“
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
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Prologue: Evidence and Presence, Spectral and Other
Introduction
1. “For Reasons of History”: Jose Antonio Aponte and His Libro de Pinturas
2. Genealogies of Morality: The Afro-Cuban Nganga as Wage Laborer, Slave, and Maroon
3. Una Salacion Cientifica: The Work of Witchcraft and Science in Cuban Modernity
Epilogue: Carnal Knowledge
Appendix: Aponte’s Library
Notes
References
Permissions
Index
