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  • The Caribbean

    A History of the Region and Its Peoples

    Edited by Stephan Palmié, Francisco A. Scarano ...
    An "illuminating" survey of Caribbean history from pre-Columbian times to the twenty-first century ( Los Angeles Times).Combining fertile soils, vital trade routes, and a coveted strategic location, the islands and surrounding continental lowlands of the Caribbean were one of Europe's earliest and most desirable colonial frontiers. The region was colonized over the course of five centuries by a ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wizards and Scientists

    Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition

    by Stephan Palmié ...
    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 ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • El Monte's New Itineraries

    Afrodiasporic Spirituality in the Contemporary Caribbean

    by Alberto Sosa-Cabanas, Jossianna Arroyo, Erwan Dianteill, Joshua R. Deckman, Emily A. Maguire, Lazara Menendez, Stephan Palmie, Juan Esteban Plaza, Beatriz Rivera-Barnes, Suset Sanchez0, Martin A. Tsang1 ...
    Series series Critical Caribbean Studies
    El Monte's New Itineraries is the first book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera’s El Monte (1954), one of the most influential books in Caribbean cultural history. Highly referenced, if understudied, El Monte is a comprehensive work that intertwines ethnobotany, popular orality, and Afro-Cuban traditions. Its pages have enjoyed a transnational influence, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Fernando Ortiz

    Caribbean and Mediterranean Counterpoints

    Edited by Stephan Palmié ...
    Series series Special Issues in Ethnographic Theory
    Cross-regional scholarly dialogue inspired by the work of the pioneering Cuban scholar.Fernando Ortiz (1881–1969) coined the term “transculturation” in 1940. This was an early case of theory from the South: concepts developed from an explicitly peripheral epistemological vantage point and launched as a corrective to European and North American theoretical formulations. What Ortiz proposed was a ... Read more

    Was $28.99 USD Now $17.99 USD

  • Thinking with Ngangas

    What Afro-Cuban Ritual Can Tell Us about Scientific Practice and Vice Versa

    by Stephan Palmié ...
    A comparative investigation of Afro-Cuban ritual and Western science that aims to challenge the rationality of Western expert practices.Inspired by the exercises of Father Lafitau, an eighteenth-century Jesuit priest and protoethnographer who compared the lives of the Iroquois to those of the ancient Greeks, Stephan Palmié embarks on a series of unusual comparative investigations of Afro-Cuban ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Cooking of History

    How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion

    by Stephan Palmié ...
    Over a lifetime of studying Cuban Santería and other religions related to Orisha worship—a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa—Stephan Palmié has grown progressively uneasy with the assumptions inherent in the very term Afro-Cuban religion. In The Cooking of History he provides a comprehensive analysis of these assumptions, in the process offering an incisive critique both of the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Mythology in Our Language

    Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough

    by Ludwig Wittgenstein ...
    Translated by Stephan Palmié ...
    In 1931 Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote his famous Remarks on Frazer’s “Golden Bough,” published posthumously in 1967. At that time, anthropology and philosophy were in close contact—continental thinkers drew heavily on anthropology’s theoretical terms, like mana, taboo, and potlatch, in order to help them explore the limits of human belief and imagination. Now the book receives its first translation by ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Varieties of Historical Experience

    Edited by Charles Stewart, Stephan Palmié ...
    Series series The Anthropology of History
    This book considers how history is not just objectively lived but subjectively experienced by people in the process of orienting their present toward the past. It analyses affectivity in historical experience, examines the digital mediation of history, and assesses the current politics of competing historical genres. The contributors explore the diverse ways in which the past may be activated and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Empirical Futures

    Anthropologists and Historians Engage the Work of Sidney W. Mintz

    Edited by George Baca, Aisha Khan, Stephan Palmié ...
    Since the 1950s, anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz has been at the forefront of efforts to integrate the disciplines of anthropology and history. Author of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History and other groundbreaking works, he was one of the first scholars to anticipate and critique “globalization studies.” However, a strong tradition of epistemologically sophisticated and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD