Publications
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prendas-ngangas-enquisos: turbulence and the influence of the dead in cuban-kongo material culture. | cuban-kongo praise of the dead in havana turns insistently around complex agglomerations of materials called "prendas,"ngangas," and "enquisos." this article addresses the ontological status of "prendas-ngangas-enquisos," which practitioners of cuban-kongo affliction practices care for as entities that determine the very possibility of their healing and harming craft. cuban-kongo societies of affliction, in havana collectively referred to as "palo," stake their claim to influence others in and t ... | 2010 | 20662145 |