The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion Urban ; Fiction Associate Professor of Politics and

Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs

all within the wider context of modern global Diaspora formations

George Fredrickson has won recognition as the leading scholar of the struggle over racial domination in the United States and South Africa

From a Canadian city that once completely eradicated poverty

The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion Urban ; Fiction Associate Professor of Politics andOver a lifetime of studying Cuban Santera and other religions related to Orisha worshipa practice also found among the Yoruba in West AfricaStephan Palmi 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