Africas of the Americas
Beyond the Search for Origins in the Study of Afro-Atlantic Religions
Biographical note
Stephan Palmié, Ph.D. (University of Munich, 1989) is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Das Exil der Götter (1991) and Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition (2002).
Readership
Anthropologists, historians, and religious studies scholars concerned with the African Diaspora and African American cultural history. Caribbeanists, Latin Americanists and Africanists more generally
Reviews
" ... the value of this book is at least two-fold.: It is at once a counterparadigm to traditional Afro-Americanist religious studies and a subtle but sharp critique of what Vassos Argyrou has called the “ethnological predicament” (2002: 2), that in having traditionally placed themselves as the arbitrors of ‘difference’, anthropologists have implicitly claimed for
themselves an ahistorical observer’s perspective they clearly do not occupy, in either ideological or practical terms."
Diana Espirito Santo, Institute de Ciencias Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa. (Religion and Society: Advances in Research, 2010)
themselves an ahistorical observer’s perspective they clearly do not occupy, in either ideological or practical terms."
Diana Espirito Santo, Institute de Ciencias Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa. (Religion and Society: Advances in Research, 2010)
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