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Article: Palmie, Stephan Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition.
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- History: Review of New Books
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- June 22, 2002
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Durham: Duke University Press 399 pp., $64.95 cloth, $21.95 paper ISBN 0-8223-2828-3 cloth ISBN 0-8223-2842-9 paper Publication Date: January 2002
Wizards and Scientists offers many theoretical insights based on broad secondary readings and limited but innovative historical evidence. Most appropriate for specialists and upper-level graduate students in anthropology or cultural history, Stephan Palmie's book opens with a staggering eighty pages of introductory material that attacks the false dichotomies between "modernity" and "tradition," "revolution" and "restoration," and "scientific evidence" and "religious beliefs."
Palmie, a German scholar trained ...