Kenneth Routon

Hidden Powers of State in the Cuban Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

"Explores the mutual interaction between magic in Cuban popular culture and the social construction of the power of the Cuban socialist state."--"Book News"" ""Describes how socialist ideology is intertwined with Afro-Cuban religious beliefs and practices."--"Chronicle of Higher Education"" ""Analyzes the Cuban capacity for combining apparently incompatible beliefs such as socialism and various Afro-Cuban religious practices not only by legitimizing their practice but also by creating a historical narrative wherein the faithful--many of whom are black and poor, two segments of the population that were heavily pro-Revolution--can be reminded of how important they were to the Cuban Revolution."-- "WesLive: Wesleyan's Community Blog" "A fascinating, timely, and deftly balanced account of the power of magic and the state in revolutionary Cuba. This compelling and evocative book transports readers to the secret and mysterious alleys of religious and political workings, the ritual production of selective historical memory, and the current statecraft of religious appropriations."--Raquel Romberg, author of "Healing Dramas: Divination and Magic in Modern Puerto Rico" "A valuable contribution to scholarship in Cuban studies and the study of religion in the Americas. [Routon] provides a number of important insights into the processes by which magical and ritual idioms of power feed the political imagery and exercise of power in Cuba, and vice versa."--Christine Ayorinde, author of "Afro-Cuban Religiosity, Revolution, and National Identity" ""Hidden Powers of the State in the Cuban Imagination" is a remarkable achievement. Rather than delivering yet another ethnography of an objectified entity called "Afro-Cuban religion, ' Routon opens up fresh and illuminating perspectives on the historical complexity and contemporary volatility of the semiotics of a world in which the experientially occult nature of power has become coextensive with the experience of the powers of the occult."--Stephan Palmie, author of "Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition "Kenneth Routon is visiting assistant professor of cultural anthropology at the University of New Orleans.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Florida
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780813041964
• ISBN-10: 0813041961
• Artikelnr.: 34568724

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Routon is visiting assistant professor of cultural anthropology at the University of New Orleans.