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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 colon …

In Wizards and Scientists Stephan Palmie offers a corrective to the existing historiography on the Caribbean. Focusing on developments in Afro-Cuban religious culture, he demonstrates that traditiona …

Over a lifetime of studying Cuban Santeria and other religions related to Orisha worship-a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa-Stephan Palmie has grown progressively uneasy with the a …

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 …

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-cen …