How Long to Read Thinking with Ngangas

How Long Does it Take to Read Thinking with Ngangas?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 46 minutes to read Thinking with Ngangas by Stephan Palmié

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A comparative investigation of Afro-Cuban ritual and Western science that aims to challenge the rationality of Western expert practices. Inspired by the exercises of Father Lafitau, an eighteenth-century Jesuit priest and protoethnographer 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. What do organ transplants have to do with ngangas, 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 ecué onto the streets of Philadelphia? Can we consider Afro-Cuban spirit possession as a form of historical knowledge production? By 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.

How long is Thinking with Ngangas?

Thinking with Ngangas by Stephan Palmié is 283 pages long, and a total of 71,599 words.

This makes it 96% the length of the average book. It also has 88% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Thinking with Ngangas Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 31 minutes to read Thinking with Ngangas aloud.

What Reading Level is Thinking with Ngangas?

Thinking with Ngangas is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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