Over a lifetime of studying Cuban SanterÃa and other religions related to Orisha worship—a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa—Stephan Palmié has grown progressively uneasy with the assumptions inherent in the very term Afro-Cuban religion. In The Cooking of History he provides a comprehensive analysis of these assumptions; in the process offering an incisive critique both of the anthropology of religion and of scholarship on the cultural history of the Afro-Atlantic World.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Original; ground-breaking; very stimulating. This takes the ...By Peter ManuelOriginal; ground-breaking; very stimulating. This takes the study of Afro-Caribbean religion and culture to a new level. I just wish his editor had encouraged him not to write sentences; on every page; of 60 or even 75 words. One commences such a sentence as if contemplating a mountain that has to be climbed; or a dense thicket that has to be hacked through; in the midst of which; somewhere; one will find subject and verb.1 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Perhaps the most important book by Stephan Palmié to dateBy Sergio GonzalezAn excellent book by one of the leading anthropologists on Afro-Cuban religion. It shows the power of history in the configuration of cultural traditions; it challenges our preconceptions; and offers an innovative approach to anthropology by using novel metaphors to analyze complex social processes
