{"product_id":"thinking-with-ngangas-what-afro-cuban-ritual-can-tell-us-about-scientific-practice-and-vice-versa-paperback","title":"Thinking with Ngangas: What Afro-Cuban Ritual Can Tell Us about Scientific Practice and Vice Versa - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStephan Palmié\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comparative investigation of Afro-Cuban ritual and Western science that aims to challenge the rationality of Western expert practices.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 ritual and Western science. What do organ transplants have to do with \u003ci\u003engangas\u003c\/i\u003e, a complex assemblage of mineral, animal, and vegetal materials, including human remains, that serve as the embodiment of the spirits of the dead? How do genomics and \"ancestry projects\" converge with divination and oracular systems? What does it mean that Black Cubans in the United States took advantage of Edisonian technology to project the disembodied voice of a mystical entity named \u003ci\u003eecué\u003c\/i\u003e onto the streets of Philadelphia? Can we consider Afro-Cuban spirit possession as a form of historical knowledge production? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By writing about Afro-Cuban ritual in relation to Western scientific practice, and vice versa, Palmié hopes to challenge the rationality of Western expert practices, revealing the logic that brings together enchantment and experiment.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephan Palmié\u003c\/b\u003e is the Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and the author of \u003ci\u003eWizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion\u003c\/i\u003e, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 10, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461011521714,"sku":"9780226825946","price":48.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/c92494ee4c3e816b899ea2befec0c013.webp?v=1778937974","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/thinking-with-ngangas-what-afro-cuban-ritual-can-tell-us-about-scientific-practice-and-vice-versa-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}