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Article: Religion.(Book Review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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- December 1, 2003
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Religion
PALMIE, STEPHAN. Wizards and scientists: explorations in Afro-Cuban modernity and tradition. xi, 399 pp., bibliogr. London, Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2002. [pounds sterling]16.95 (paper)
Palmie has written an intriguing discussion of Afro-Cuban religion that contains stimulating reflections on the relationship of modernity and tradition, and on the relationship of the past and the present. The book will interest not just readers concerned with Cuba and the Caribbean, but also those concerned with the ways that people in the present construct the past and their relationship with it, a relationship often coded as the modern and the ...