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Thinking with Ngangas

- What Afro-Cuban Ritual Can Tell Us about Scientific Practice and Vice Versa
Af: Stephan Palmie Engelsk Paperback

Thinking with Ngangas

- What Afro-Cuban Ritual Can Tell Us about Scientific Practice and Vice Versa
Af: Stephan Palmie Engelsk Paperback
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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 ritual and Western science. What do organ transplants have to do with ngangas, 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 ecué onto the streets of Philadelphia? Can we consider Afro-Cuban spirit possession as a form of historical knowledge production?   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.
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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 ritual and Western science. What do organ transplants have to do with ngangas, 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 ecué onto the streets of Philadelphia? Can we consider Afro-Cuban spirit possession as a form of historical knowledge production?   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.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 288
ISBN-13: 9780226825946
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0226825949
Kategori: Kulturstudier
Udg. Dato: 10 okt 2023
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 229mm
Højde: 152mm
Forlag: The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato: 10 okt 2023
Forfatter(e): Stephan Palmie
Forfatter(e) Stephan Palmie

Kategori Kulturstudier

ISBN-13 9780226825946

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 288

Udgave

Længde 18mm

Bredde 229mm

Højde 152mm

Udg. Dato 10 okt 2023

Oplagsdato 10 okt 2023

Forlag The University of Chicago Press

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