Crumpled Paper Boat: Experiments in Ethnographic Writing
Anand Pandian teaches anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation, also published by Duke University Press.
Stuart McLean teaches anthropology at the University of Minnesota. His books include Fictionalizing Anthropology: Encounters and Fabulations at the Edge of the Human.
Anand Pandian teaches anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation, also published by Duke University Press.
Stuart McLean teaches anthropology at the University of Minnesota. His books include Fictionalizing Anthropology: Encounters and Fabulations at the Edge of the Human.
In the countryside of central Cuba, African-inspired feasts conjoin West African, Kongo, and Catholic sources in a complex musical, theatrical, and affective praise style that prizes new shapes and new fates. This is an ethnographic encounter with the problem of mutually affirmed social and historical forces.
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