Thinking with ngangas what Afro-Cuban ritual can tell us about scientific practice and vice versa
"Inspired by the exercises of Father Lafitau, a Jesuit priest and proto-ethnographer of the "New World" who compared the lives of the Iroquois to the ancient Greeks, Stephan Palmié embarks on a series of unusual comparative investigations. What do organ transplants have to do with nga...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago ; London
University of Chicago Press
2023, ©2023
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. EP and the Problem of Other Worlds
- Chapter 2. Thinking with Ngangas about Transplant Surgery, Personhood, and the Limits of "Objectively Necessary Appearances"
- Chapter 3. Thinking with Ifá about Genomic Ancestry Profiles and "Racecraft"
- Chapter 4. Thinking with Abakuá about Early Analog Acoustic Technology and the "Dialectics of Ensoniment"
- Chapter 5. Thinking with the Cajón pa' los Muertos about Historicist Knowledge and Its Conditions of Impossibility
- Chapter 6. Thinking with Otanes about Mid-Twentieth-Century American Anthropology
- Epilogue. Thinking with Tomás about My Own Work
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index