{"product_id":"witchcraft-and-welfare-raquel-romberg-9780292771260","title":"Witchcraft and Welfare: Spiritual Capital and the Business of Magic in Modern Puerto Rico","description":"\u003cp\u003ePersecuted as evil during colonial times, considered charlatans during the nation-building era, Puerto Rican brujos (witch-healers) today have become spiritual entrepreneurs who advise their clients not only in consultation with the spirits but also in compliance with state laws and new economic opportunities. Combining trance, dance, magic, and healing practices with expertise in the workings of the modern welfare state, they help lawyers win custody suits, sick employees resolve labor disability claims, single mothers apply for government housing, or corporation managers maximize their commercial skills.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on extensive fieldwork among practicing brujos, this book presents a masterful history and ethnography of Puerto Rican brujer? (witch-healing). Raquel Romberg explores how brujer? emerged from a blending of popular Catholicism, Afro-Latin religions, French Spiritism, and folk Protestantism and also looks at how it has adapted to changes in state policies and responded to global flows of ideas and commodities. She demonstrates that, far from being an exotic or marginal practice in the modern world, brujer? has become an invisible yet active partner of consumerism and welfare capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Raquel Romberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0292771266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292771260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 335\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.82h x 6.40w x 0.76d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2004 pg. 1121","brand":"Raquel Romberg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946392060159,"sku":"9780292771260","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_e8abce77-8caf-47f2-8556-ce666ca9e2f3.jpg?v=1681512885","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/witchcraft-and-welfare-raquel-romberg-9780292771260","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}