The cooking of history
Subtitle: how not to study Afro-Cuban religion
By: Stephan Palmié
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780226019420; 9780226019567; 9780226019734
Subjects: Religion; Blacks; Afro-Caribbean cults
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: BL2532.S3 or, How not to study "Afro"-"Cuban" "religion"; title: On Yoruba origins, for example; title: Fernando Ortiz and the cooking of history; title: Or "syncretism," for that matter; title: The color of the gods: notes on a question better left unasked; title: Afronauts of the virtual Atlantic: the giant African snail incident, the war of the Oriatés, and the plague of Orichas; title: Coda. Ackee and saltfish versus amalá con quimbombó, or more foods for thought.