The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion

by Stephan Palmié

Book Overview

Over a lifetime of studying Cuban Santer a and other religions related to Orisha worship--a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa--Stephan Palmi 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 anthropology of religion and of scholarship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022601956X
• ISBN13: 9780226019567
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"