Inspired by the exercises of Father Lafitau, an eighteenth-century Jesuit priest and protoethnographer who compares the lives of the Iroquois to those of the ancient Greeks, Stephan Palmiè embarks on a series of unusual comparative investigations of Afro-Cuban ritual and Western science hoping to challenge the rationality of Western expert practices, revealing the logic that brings together enchantment and experiment.

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