{"product_id":"thinking-with-ngangas-stephan-palmizs-9780226825922","title":"Thinking with Ngangas: What Afro-Cuban Ritual Can Tell Us about Scientific Practice and Vice Versa","description":"\u003cb\u003eA comparative investigation of Afro-Cuban ritual and Western science that aims to challenge the rationality of Western expert practices.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Inspired by the exercises of Father Lafitau, an eighteenth-century Jesuit priest and protoethnographer who compared the lives of the Iroquois to those of the ancient Greeks, Stephan Palmié embarks on a series of unusual comparative investigations of Afro-Cuban ritual and Western science. What do organ transplants have to do with \u003ci\u003engangas\u003c\/i\u003e, a complex assemblage of mineral, animal, and vegetal materials, including human remains, that serve as the embodiment of the spirits of the dead? How do genomics and \"ancestry projects\" converge with divination and oracular systems? What does it mean that Black Cubans in the United States took advantage of Edisonian technology to project the disembodied voice of a mystical entity named \u003ci\u003eecué\u003c\/i\u003e onto the streets of Philadelphia? Can we consider Afro-Cuban spirit possession as a form of historical knowledge production? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By writing about Afro-Cuban ritual in relation to Western scientific practice, and vice versa, Palmié hopes to challenge the rationality of Western expert practices, revealing the logic that brings together enchantment and experiment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephan Palmié\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226825922\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226825922\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Stephan Palmié","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47424988709119,"sku":"9780226825922","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2e34662b-7b48-4ec2-af22-906f11678b7e.jpg?v=1761536233","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/thinking-with-ngangas-stephan-palmizs-9780226825922","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}