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Description:PIn iWizards and Scientists/i Stephan Palmieacute; offers a corrective to the existing historiography on the Caribbean. Focusing on developments in Afro-Cuban 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. Palmieacute; 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.br#9;Highlighting the ways that Afro-Cuban discourses serve as a means of moral analysis of social action, Palmieacute; suggests that the supposedly irrational premises of Afro-Cuban religious traditions not only rival Western rationality in analytical acumen but are integrally linked to rationality itself. Afro-Cuban religion is as ldquo;modernrdquo; as nuclear thermodynamics, he claims, just as the Caribbean might be regarded as one of the worldrsquo;s first truly ldquo;modernrdquo; locales#58; 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, Palmieacute; focuses on those whose physical abuse and intellectual denigration were the price paid for modernityrsquo;s 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 contradiction-ridden postcolonial present that can be analyzed as forms of historical and social analysis in their own right.br#9;iWizards and Scientists/i will interest students and scholars of Cuba, the Caribbean, anthropology, history, religion, science studies, and modernity.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition. To get started finding Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: PIn iWizards and Scientists/i Stephan Palmieacute; offers a corrective to the existing historiography on the Caribbean. Focusing on developments in Afro-Cuban 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. Palmieacute; 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.br#9;Highlighting the ways that Afro-Cuban discourses serve as a means of moral analysis of social action, Palmieacute; suggests that the supposedly irrational premises of Afro-Cuban religious traditions not only rival Western rationality in analytical acumen but are integrally linked to rationality itself. Afro-Cuban religion is as ldquo;modernrdquo; as nuclear thermodynamics, he claims, just as the Caribbean might be regarded as one of the worldrsquo;s first truly ldquo;modernrdquo; locales#58; 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, Palmieacute; focuses on those whose physical abuse and intellectual denigration were the price paid for modernityrsquo;s 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 contradiction-ridden postcolonial present that can be analyzed as forms of historical and social analysis in their own right.br#9;iWizards and Scientists/i will interest students and scholars of Cuba, the Caribbean, anthropology, history, religion, science studies, and modernity.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition. To get started finding Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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