{"product_id":"thinking-with-ngangas-by-stephan-palmie-9780226825946","title":"Thinking with Ngangas","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThinking with Ngangas\u003c\/em\u003e offers a comparative investigation of Afro-Cuban ritual and Western science that aims to challenge the rationality of Western expert practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by the exercises of Father Lafitau, an eighteenth-century Jesuit priest and proto-ethnographer who compared the lives of the Iroquois to those of the ancient Greeks, Stephan Palmié embarks on a series of unusual comparative investigations of Afro-Cuban ritual and Western science.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat do organ transplants have to do with \u003cem\u003engangas\u003c\/em\u003e, a complex assemblage of mineral, animal, and vegetal materials, including human remains, that serve as the embodiment of the spirits of the dead? How do genomics and \"ancestry projects\" converge with divination and oracular systems? What does it mean that Black Cubans in the United States took advantage of Edisonian technology to project the disembodied voice of a mystical entity named \u003cem\u003eecué\u003c\/em\u003e onto the streets of Philadelphia? Can we consider Afro-Cuban spirit possession as a form of historical knowledge production?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy writing about Afro-Cuban ritual in relation to Western scientific practice, and vice versa, Palmié hopes to challenge the rationality of Western expert practices, revealing the logic that brings together enchantment and experiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47433133064428,"sku":"9780226825946","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780226825946.jpg?v=1774765515","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/thinking-with-ngangas-by-stephan-palmie-9780226825946","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}