Thinking with Ngangas: What Afro-Cuban Ritual Can Tell Us about Scientific Practice and Vice Versa

by Stephan Palmié

Book Overview

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 proto-ethnographer who compared the lives of the Iroquois to those of the ancient Greeks, Stephan Palmi? embarks on a series of unusual comparative investigations of Afro-Cuban ritual and Western science. What do organ...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226825949
• ISBN13: 9780226825946
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"