Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition DEVELOPMENT STUDEIS and skills learned from the

and skills learned from the authors' years of collective corporate experience

What he craves could be his downfall

Omar's most feared adversary

”―New York Times

Grief is his only connection to the wife and son he lost

Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition DEVELOPMENT STUDEIS and skills learned from theIn Wizards and Scientists Stephan Palmi offers a corrective to the existing historiography on the Caribbean. Focusing on developments in Afro Cuban religious culture, he demonstrates that traditional Caribbean cultural practices are part and parcel of the same history that produced modernity and that both represent complexly interrelated hybrid formations. Palmi argues that the standard narrative trajectory from tradition to modernity, and from