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The Cooking of History: How Not to Study AfroCuban Religion,Used
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Over a lifetime of studying Cuban Santera and other religions related to Orisha worshipa practice also found among the Yoruba in West AfricaStephan Palmi has grown progressively uneasy with the assumptions inherent in the very term AfroCuban 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 on the cultural history of the AfroAtlantic World.Understood largely through its rituals and ceremonies, Santera and related religions have been a challenge for anthropologists to link to a hypothetical African past. But, Palmi argues, precisely by relying on the notion of an aboriginal African past, and by claiming to authenticate these religions via their findings, anthropologistssome of whom have converted to these religionshave exerted considerable influence upon contemporary practices. Critiquing widespread and damaging simplifications that posit religious practices as stable and selfcontained, Palmi calls for a drastic new approach that properly situates cultural origins within the complex social environments and scholarly fields in which they are investigated.
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