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Wizards And Scientists: Explorations In Afrocuban Modernity And Tradition,Used
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In Wizards and Scientists Stephan Palmi offers a corrective to the existing historiography on the Caribbean. Focusing on developments in AfroCuban religious culture, he demonstrates that traditional Caribbean cultural practices are part and parcel of the same history that produced modernity and that both represent complexly interrelated hybrid formations. Palmi argues that the standard narrative trajectory from tradition to modernity, and from passion to reason, is a violation of the synergistic processes through which historically specific, moral communities develop the cultural forms that integrate them.Highlighting the ways that AfroCuban discourses serve as a means of moral analysis of social action, Palmi suggests that the supposedly irrational premises of AfroCuban religious traditions not only rival Western rationality in analytical acumen but are integrally linked to rationality itself. AfroCuban religion is as modern as nuclear thermodynamics, he claims, just as the Caribbean might be regarded as one of the worlds first truly modern locales: based on the appropriation and destruction of human bodies for profit, its plantation export economy anticipated the industrial revolution in the metropolis by more than a century. Working to prove that modernity is not just an aspect of the West, Palmi focuses on those whose physical abuse and intellectual denigration were the price paid for modernitys achievement. All cultures influenced by the transcontinental Atlantic economy share a legacy of slave commerce. Nevertheless, local forms of moral imagination have developed distinctive yet interrelated responses to this violent past and the contradictionridden postcolonial present that can be analyzed as forms of historical and social analysis in their own right.
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